Immune System

4. nonspecific resistance that destroys invaders in a generalized way without targeting specific individuals
5. A protein made by plasma cells (a type of white blood cell) in response to an antigen
7. develop from stem cells in the bone marrow and become different types of white blood cells.
8. any of the kinds of cells normally found circulating in the blood.
10. a substance used to stimulate immunity to a particular infectious disease or pathogen, typically prepared from an inactivated or weakened form of the causative agent or from its constituents or products.
13. A type of white blood cell that makes antibodies
14. A complex network of cells, tissues, organs, and the substances they make that helps the body fight infections and other diseases.
16. medicines that fight bacterial infections in people and animals.
18. occurs when microbes evolve mechanisms that protect them from the effects of antimicrobials
19. the disintegration of a cell by disruption of its plasma membrane.
20. physical and chemical barriers that are always ready and prepared to defend the body from infection.

1. a method by which a virus can replicate its DNA using a host cell.
2. A protein made by plasma cells (a type of white blood cell) in response to an antigen
3. Any substance that causes the body to make an immune response against that substance
6. This system relies on antigens, which are specific substances found in foreign microbes.
9. results when exposure to a disease organism triggers the immune system to produce antibodies to that disease.
11. acquired from exposure to the disease organism through infection with the actual disease.
12. A type of white blood cell.
15. a mean by which the body is given immunity to a disease by intentional exposure to small quantities of it.
17. A type of white blood cell that surrounds and kills microorganisms, removes dead cells, and stimulates the action of other immune system cells.