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Which statement about protection against smallpox by variolation is
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true? - ANSWER✔✔✔-Variolation produced immune protection with a
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much lower mortality rate than smallpox infection in the general
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population


Which example demonstrates paracrine signaling? - ANSWER✔✔✔-An
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APC produces IL-12 that binds to its receptor on a T cell that recognizes
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the antigen being presented
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Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a pathogen-associated molecular ___| | | | | | |



(PAMP) of gram-negative bacteria that binds to the TLR-4 receptor on
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immune cells. - ANSWER✔✔✔-pattern
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Adaptive immunity has all the following advantages over innate
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immunity except: - ANSWER✔✔✔-has a rapid primary response to
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infection


Which microbe is classified as an obligate intracellular pathogen? -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-virus

,To be successful causing infection, a microbe must be able to evade host
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defenses. What mechanism helps a microbe evade adaptive immune
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responses, even in individuals who have been vaccinated against that
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microbe? - ANSWER✔✔✔-mutation | |




Which cell type is not visible in this microscopic image of a healthy
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human blood smear? - ANSWER✔✔✔-macrophage
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What is the functional role of CD3 complex and Ig-alpha/beta, which are
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membrane proteins associated with T-cell and B-cell receptors,
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respectively. - ANSWER✔✔✔-signal transducer | | |




Match the cell with is functionally related counterpart. - ANSWER✔✔✔-
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* basophil - mast cell
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*megakaryocyte - thrombocyte | |




*B cell - plasma cell
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*monocyte - macrophage | |




*cytotoxic T cell -natural killer cell | | | | |




PAMP-PRR interactions are used by the immune system to determine if
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something is harmful to the host. What other key piece of information
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do these interactions provide to immune cells, so the appropriate
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, responses can be activated? - ANSWER✔✔✔-what type of microbe is
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present (e.g., virus, bacterium, parasite)
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What key observation made by Edward Jenner in the 1790s led to the
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development of the first vaccine? - ANSWER✔✔✔-Milkmaids who got
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cowpox infection from milking cows were protected against infection by
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smallpox.


Which example describes a defect in immune tolerance in the human
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host? - ANSWER✔✔✔-A man develops an allergy to the Fel d 1 protein
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expressed by cats | |




Of the following immune cells, which one's primary role is
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phagocytosis? (choose all correct answers) | | | |




All correct answers must be selected in order to be graded correct -
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ANSWER✔✔✔--neutrophils
-dendritic cells |




-macrophages


Athenan general and historian Thucydides made observations of a
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plague during the Peloponnesian Wars. Those who previously
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contracted the disease and recovered could care for the sick because
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they would not contract the disease again. In this respect, the term
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"immunity" is derived from the Latin "immunis", which means: -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-exempt

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