Across
- 2. Being protected from a pathogen by immunity gained from someone else.
- 4. A type of blood cell that is made in the bone marrow and found in the blood and lymph tissue.
- 8. A drug used to treat infections caused by bacteria and other microorganisms.
- 9. A type of white blood cell.
- 13. Happens when germs like bacteria and fungi develop the ability to defeat the drugs designed to kill them.
- 14. A cell that is part of the immune system and helps the body fight infections and other diseases.
- 17. Cells tailor made to get rid of the specific microorganisms that have invaded your tissue.
- 18. A protein made by plasma cells in response to an antigen.
- 19. Any substance that causes the body to make an immune response against that substance.
- 20. When the body is given immunity to a disease by intentional exposure to small quantities of it.
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- 1. A group of cells, tissues and organs that work together to protect the body.
- 3. A type of immune cell that is made in the bone marrow and is found in the blood and in lymph tissue.
- 5. A type of white blood cell that surrounds and kills microorganisms, removes dead cells, and stimulates the action of other immune system cells.
- 6. Physical and chemical barriers that are always ready and prepared to defend the body from infection.
- 7. A type of white blood cell that makes antibodies.
- 10. The reproduction of viruses using a host cell to manufacture more viruses; the viruses then burst out of the cell.
- 11. A type of immune cell that can surround and kill microorganisms, ingest foreign material, and remove dead cells.
- 12. An infectious microbe consisting of a segment of nucleic acid (either DNA or RNA) surrounded by a protein coat.
- 15. Acquired from exposure to the disease organism through infection with the actual disease.
- 16. A method by which a virus can replicate its DNA using a host cell.
