Interactive Link Questions
INTERACTIVE LINK QUESTIONS
- Visit this website for an overview of the lymphatic system. What are the three main components of the lymphatic system?
- Visit this website to learn about the many different cell types in the immune system and their very specialized jobs. What is the role of the dendritic cell in infection by HIV?
- Visit this website to learn about phagocyte chemotaxis. Phagocyte chemotaxis is the movement of phagocytes according to the secretion of chemical messengers in the form of interleukins and other chemokines. By what means does a phagocyte destroy a bacterium that it has ingested?
- Immunity can be acquired in an active or passive way, and it can be natural or artificial. Watch this video to see an animated discussion of passive and active immunity. What is an example of natural immunity acquired passively?