Self Quiz for The Adaptive Immune System: An Overview

Study the material in this section and then write out the answers to these questions.
Do not just click on the answers and write them out. This will not test your understanding of this tutorial.

1. Describe what is meant by the following:

a. innate immunity (ans)

b. adaptive (acquired) immunity (ans)

2. Define the following:

a. antigen (ans)

b. immunogen (ans)

c. epitope (ans)

d. humoral immunity (ans)

e. cell-mediated immunity (ans)

 

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Gary E. Kaiser, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology
The Community College of Baltimore County, Catonsville Campus
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Based on a work The Grapes of Staph at https://cwoer.ccbcmd.edu/science/microbiology/index_gos.html.