3.1.3 Vocab Crossword

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  1. 2. A type of white blood cell that matures in bone marrow and produces antibodies.
  2. 3. Non-living particles with DNA or RNA that can infect living cells and use them to reproduce.
  3. 8. Specific immune defense mechanisms. This form of immunity is acquired over a lifetime and uses antibodies to respond to specific antigens.
  4. 10. An organism in which another organism lives.
  5. 12. A substance used to stimulate an immune response with the goal of creating antibodies and providing immunity to specific infections.
  6. 14. A protein produced by B cells in the blood; works to impair pathogens. Also called an immunoglobulin.
  7. 16. Single celled organisms, prokaryotic, most are beneficial but some pathogenic to humans.
  8. 17. Eukaryotic cells, related to mushrooms, some cause infections in humans (usually mild, but not always).
  9. 18. A disease-causing organism.
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  1. 1. Disease transmission that occurs when a susceptible host inhales infected particles, touches an infected object, or is bitten by an infected insect.
  2. 4. Non-specific immune defense mechanisms that we are born with. These mechanisms work to keep anything outside of us from coming in.
  3. 5. An infectious protein.
  4. 6. Anything that stimulates an immune response.
  5. 7. Disease transmission that occurs when a susceptible host touches an infected individual or is exposed to their body fluids.
  6. 9. The ability to defend against a pathogen by preventing its entry and/or development or by neutralizing its pathogenic cellular products.
  7. 11. A type of white blood cell produced by the thymus and involved in the immune response.
  8. 13. Single celled microscopic animals, some of which act as parasites in humans.
  9. 15. Parasitic worms, multicellular, use humans as hosts.