Chapter 27 Flashcards
1
Q
What is immunity?
A
The body’s ability to fight off diseases.
2
Q
What is innate immunity?
A
Not specific to different types of infection. No memory effect.
3
Q
What is adaptive immunity?
A
It is selective and specific to a pathogen it remembers because they have been encountered before.
4
Q
How does vaccination work?
A
A dead or disabled pathogen is introduced into the body in order to trigger an immune response without getting the disease.
