Body defenses

Question 1

How does innate and adaptive defense differ?

Answer 1

Nonspecific -Specific defensive system
-Responds immediately to protect the body -Fight invaders that get past the
from all foreign substances’ innate defence by mounting an
-we are born with our innate defence system to attack against one or more
-Parts of the first innate defensive system: particular foreign substance
Skin Parts of adaptive mechanism
Mucosa membrane Lymphocytes
Inflammatory response Antibodies
number of proteins produced by body cells’ Macrophages
-Parts of the second defensive system: Other antigen-presenting cells
Phagocytic cells
Natural killer cells
Antimicrobial proteins
The inflammatory response
Fever
Function: Preventing the entry and spread of
Microorganisms throughout the body