Chapter 14
Across
- 1. reaction caused when the immune system is overly sensitive to a foreign substance
- 3. body's ability to destroy pathogens before that cause disease
- 5. immunization
- 8. chemical produced by body that is responsible for the symptoms of allergy
- 10. poison
- 12. white blood cell that engulfs pathogens and destroys them
- 13. abnormal masses of cells
- 14. lymphocyte that identifies pathogens and distinguishes one pathogen from another
- 16. any substance that causes an allergy
- 17. proteins produced by b cells
- 18. factors in the environment that cause cancer
- 19. acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
Down
- 2. white blood cells that distinguish between different kinds of pathogens
- 4. produce proteins that help destroy pathogens
- 6. organisms that cause disease
- 7. virus that causes AIDS
- 9. living things too small to see without a microscope
- 11. diseases that are not caused by pathogens
- 15. chemical that kills bacteria or slow their growth without harming body cells
- 16. molecules that the immune system recognizes either as part of your body or as coming from outside your body