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What are the two types of the immune system? |
Specific and non specific |
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What are the types of non specific? |
Intact skin,muscus and cilia ,and phagocytes |
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What does intact skin do? |
Dead skin cells are being removed to keep bacteria from colonizing |
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What does the skin contain? |
Sweat and oils that contain anti-microbial |
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What does mucus contain and what does the stuff in mucus do? |
Lysomes and enzymes that destroy bacterial cell walls |
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What does cilia do? |
Moves mucus to keep bacteria and viruses out |
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What is phagocytes a type of? |
White blood cells |
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What do the white blood cells do? |
Seek and destroy invaders |
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What do white blood cells and fluid do? |
Rush to sight of infection |
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What is fever? |
A defense mechanism that can kill microbes (bacteria) |