VT120 IMMUNOLOGY EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
Artificial passive would include which of the following examples?
Vaccines
Exposure to actual disease
Colostrum
Snake antivenin - Correct Answers -Snake antivenin
This white blood cell helps the immune response by secreting cytokines to the
surrounding tissue.
monocyte
eosinophil
Helper T- lymphocyte
Neutrophil - Correct Answers -Helper T- lymphocytes
This white blood cell coordinates the immune response by secreting cytokines to other
immune cells.
monocytes
eosinophil
helper T lymphocytes
Neutrophil - Correct Answers -Neutrophil
Ninety-five percent of the circulating antibodies in puppies younger than 48 hours old
come from the:
Colostrum
Placenta
Puppies' bone marrow
Environment - Correct Answers –Colostrum
Colostrum is important for the newborn because it provides:
A) Passive immunity from the dam
B) Protection against internal parasites
C) Protection against hypothermia
, D) Active immunity from the sire - Correct Answers -A) Passive immunity from the dam
Which of the following is an example of a mechanical barrier?
normal flora
coughing
interferon
epidermis - Correct Answers -epidermis
Colostrum provides which type of immunity?
Active
Passive
Cellular
Acquired - Correct Answers -Passive
How do vaccines protect an animal from developing a disease?
A) Vaccines carry nutrients, oxygen, and hormones.
B) Vaccines treat a disease after animal contracts a disease.
C) Vaccines provide an initial immune response, which stimulates cloning of memory
cells.
D) Vaccines contain phagocytic cells that help fight off infection. - Correct Answers -C)
Vaccines provide an initial immune response, which stimulates cloning of memory cells.
The two most common types of vaccines in common use today in veterinary practices
are:
A) Killed (inactivated) and activated
B) Modified live and killed
C) Killed and reactivated
D) Modified live and modified killed - Correct Answers -B) Modified live and killed
Antibodies are:
A) foreign substances to the body
B) formed against one's own cells
C) immunoglobulins
D) antigens - Correct Answers -C) immunoglobulins
An antigen may be destroyed in the body before the animal even shows signs of
sickness, thanks to this immunoglobulin.
IgA
IgG
IgM
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
Artificial passive would include which of the following examples?
Vaccines
Exposure to actual disease
Colostrum
Snake antivenin - Correct Answers -Snake antivenin
This white blood cell helps the immune response by secreting cytokines to the
surrounding tissue.
monocyte
eosinophil
Helper T- lymphocyte
Neutrophil - Correct Answers -Helper T- lymphocytes
This white blood cell coordinates the immune response by secreting cytokines to other
immune cells.
monocytes
eosinophil
helper T lymphocytes
Neutrophil - Correct Answers -Neutrophil
Ninety-five percent of the circulating antibodies in puppies younger than 48 hours old
come from the:
Colostrum
Placenta
Puppies' bone marrow
Environment - Correct Answers –Colostrum
Colostrum is important for the newborn because it provides:
A) Passive immunity from the dam
B) Protection against internal parasites
C) Protection against hypothermia
, D) Active immunity from the sire - Correct Answers -A) Passive immunity from the dam
Which of the following is an example of a mechanical barrier?
normal flora
coughing
interferon
epidermis - Correct Answers -epidermis
Colostrum provides which type of immunity?
Active
Passive
Cellular
Acquired - Correct Answers -Passive
How do vaccines protect an animal from developing a disease?
A) Vaccines carry nutrients, oxygen, and hormones.
B) Vaccines treat a disease after animal contracts a disease.
C) Vaccines provide an initial immune response, which stimulates cloning of memory
cells.
D) Vaccines contain phagocytic cells that help fight off infection. - Correct Answers -C)
Vaccines provide an initial immune response, which stimulates cloning of memory cells.
The two most common types of vaccines in common use today in veterinary practices
are:
A) Killed (inactivated) and activated
B) Modified live and killed
C) Killed and reactivated
D) Modified live and modified killed - Correct Answers -B) Modified live and killed
Antibodies are:
A) foreign substances to the body
B) formed against one's own cells
C) immunoglobulins
D) antigens - Correct Answers -C) immunoglobulins
An antigen may be destroyed in the body before the animal even shows signs of
sickness, thanks to this immunoglobulin.
IgA
IgG
IgM
