Immune Response Webquest

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Immunologist ___________________________
Date ______________
Immune Response Webquest
Directions:
- Go to http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/immuneresponses/
- Click on “Play the Immune Response Game”
- Answer the following questions (they are in order starting, start with the first slide and
continue through the tenth slide)
1. What are 2 ways in which your body protects us from unwelcome substances?
2. What are 3 areas in your body in which you can find white blood cells?
3. How does Daisy now have antibodies against diphtheria?
4. How do vaccines provide immunity?
5. Describe Emil von Behring’s serum therapy for diphtheria?
6. How does your body get rid of the bacteria if you have a bacterial infection?
7. What are antibodies and how do they work?
8. What did Jules Bordet discover in 1919? How do these proteins work?
9. Why does inflammation occur when your body is fighting infections?
10. What do hungry immune cells eat?
11. In Greek, what does the word phagocyte mean?
12. What blood type can you give Immuno? Why?
13. Why did Immuno react to the second sting? What Immunoglobulin was responsible?
14. What was in the shot that saved Immuno from the wasp sting?
15. Draw Immuno’s “self” skin antigen.
16. What did Burnet and Medawar learn about the immune system?
17. What do scientists hope to do in the future to prevent patients who have transplants from
taking immune suppressing drugs?
18. Draw the antibody that can destroy the antibody in Immuno.
19. What did Edelman and Porter learn about antibodies?
20. Where are antibodies made? What else does an antibody work with in order to destroy a
pathogen?
21. How do T cells work?
22. How does the Herpes Simplex virus avoid detection from your immune system after an
infection?
23. What is immunology?
24. Watch immune system cells in action!
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