Different types of Immunity

Question 1

Immunity

Answer 1

Immunity is resistance to a particular disease-causing pathogen

Question 2

immunisation

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an artificial immunity that generates antibody responses and an immunological memory of the pathogen, mimicking the primary infection without being infected.

Question 3

Antigen

Answer 3

a substance that triggers an immune response

Question 4

antibody

Answer 4

proteins that protect you when an unwanted substance enters your body.

Question 5

Active immunity

Answer 5

when your body makes antibodies to a specific antigen

Question 6

passive immunity

Answer 6

receiving antibodies from an outside source.

Question 7

Natural passive immunity

Answer 7

newborns receiving antibodies from the mother

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artificial passive immunity

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gained from injection of antibodies from the blood of immune people or from non-human immune animals

Question 9

Natural active immunity

Answer 9

when a person develops a disease, and becomes immune as a result of the primary immune response.

Question 10

artificial active immunity

Answer 10

induced by a vaccine or a substance that contains the antigen.