Discovering Metchnikoff
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Who is Elie Metchnikoff?

  • A Russian-born scientist studying starfish (correct)
  • A Russian-born scientist studying yeast
  • A Russian-born scientist studying water fleas
  • A Russian-born scientist studying phagocytes

    • What did Elie Metchnikoff call the cells that can ingest and destroy foreign material?

  • Antibodies
  • Antigens
  • Microbes
  • Phagocytes (correct)

    • What did Elie Metchnikoff receive the Nobel Prize for in 1908?

  • His studies of water fleas
  • His studies of starfish larvae
  • His studies of yeast
  • His studies of immunity (correct)

    • What is innate immunity?

    <p>Routine protection that involves pattern recognition of specific molecules</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is adaptive immunity?

    <p>The ability to produce antibodies to bind antigens</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Elie Metchnikoff observe within the bodies of starfish larvae?

    <p>Motile ameba-like cells</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Elie Metchnikoff introduce to the starfish larvae?

    <p>Splinter</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Elie Metchnikoff reason about the cells in animals?

    <p>They are able to ingest and destroy foreign material</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Elie Metchnikoff propose that the phagocytes destroy?

    <p>Invading microbes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Elie Metchnikoff study the phagocytes of?

    <p>Water fleas</p> Signup and view all the answers

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