What's On Friday's Immunology Quiz?

• 10 Multiple Choice Questions
• 2-3 Short Answer Questions, but you will have 4-5 to choose from
• 1 Longer Question where you outline the process of acquired immunity (start with macrophage "eats" pathogen, then presents antigen on the outside using MHC protein, etc.)
• Pick Discussion Question.  Explain scientific concepts and social/ethical issues on the topic of either vaccination or HIV/AIDS.

General Topics:

• Process of blood clotting
• Specific and Nonspecific Defense Systems (includes barrier defenses, phagocytes, and lymphocytes (B and T cells).
• Be able to outline the process of an acquired immune response (look at the big diagram explaining it!) using appropriate vocabulary.
• Be able to describe what makes HIV unique and what it does to the immune system.  Know how it is transmitted and how it is NOT transmitted.
• Use of antibiotics and antibiotic resistant bacteria.  Make sure you understand why antibiotics do not work on viruses
• Outline the principles of vaccination and how a vaccine works to give an acquired response to a dangerous pathogen.
• Distinguish between active immunity and passive immunity.
• Outline the process of making monoclonal antibodies and what they can be used for.
• Antigens on red blood cells stimulate antibody production in a person with a different blood type.
• (Histamines are released by white blood cells and cause allergic symptoms.)
• (Pathogens can be species-specific or cross species boundaries)