Developing Immunity

Question 1

What is natural active immunity?

Answer 1

When the body produces it’s own antibodies to antigens encountered naturally

Question 2

What is natural passive immunity?

Answer 2

When antibodies made by the mother are passed on to the child in breast milk or the placenta

Question 3

What is immunisation?

Answer 3

The process of protecting people from infection by giving them a passive or artifical form of immunity

Question 4

What is vaccination?

Answer 4

The introduction of harmless forms of organisms or antigens to produce artifical immunity

Question 5

What is artifical passive immunity?

Answer 5

When antibodies are extracted from one person and injected into another

Question 6

What is artifical active immunity?

Answer 6

When the body produces it’s own antibodies to fight against an antigen aquired through vaccination

Question 7

What are attenuated proteins?

Answer 7

Pathogens that have been modifyed so they don’t cause disease but still cause the immune response

Question 8

What is heard immunity?

Answer 8

When a high proportion of a herd are immune which lowers the risk of infection to those not immune

Question 9

What are the advantages of vaccination?

Answer 9

People are protected from fatal illness
Society benifits because of heard immunity
Less cost in treating illness later on

Question 10

What are the disadvantages of vaccination?

Answer 10

Some children are allergic to the vaccination

Some become extremely ill after vaccination