Miscellaneous part 2
Across
- 5. infectious agent of small size and simple composition that can multiply only in living cells of animals, plants, or bacteria. The name is from a Latin word meaning “slimy liquid” or “poison.”
- 7. chemotherapeutic substances that are capable of killing and inhibiting growth of specific microorganisms
- 9. Any substance that causes the body to make an immune response against that substance.
- 13. lymphocytes known as B cells and T cells.
- 15. cells that special in engulfing and destroying foreign particles, capable of rendering protection against bacteria and other foreign particles in the body.
- 17. results when exposure to a disease organism triggers the immune system to produce antibodies to that disease.
- 19. A complex network of cells, tissues, organs, and the substances they make that helps the body fight infections and other diseases.
- 20. the immune system.
Down
- 1. Specific adaptive response
- 2. provided when a person is given antibodies to a disease rather than producing them through his or her own immune system.
- 3. happens when germs like bacteria and fungi develop the ability to defeat the drugs designed to kill them.
- 4. The act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce protection from a specific disease.
- 6. acquired from exposure to the disease organism through infection with the actual disease.
- 8. major components of the adaptive immune system.
- 10. a mean by which the body is given immunity to a disease by intentional exposure to small quantities of it.
- 11. The middle white layer is composed of white blood cells (WBCs) and platelets, and the bottom red layer is the red blood cells (RBCs).
- 12. physical and chemical barriers that are always ready and prepared to defend the body from infection.
- 14. specialized cells involved in the detection, phagocytosis and destruction of bacteria and other harmful organisms.
- 16. a type of white blood cell of the lymphocyte subtype.
- 18. protective proteins produced by your immune system.