Immune System Historical Figures
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What is the term for the relationship between exposure to cowpox and immunity to smallpox?

  • Adaptive Immunity
  • Cross Immunity
  • Cross Reactivity (correct)
  • Natural Immunity
  • What is the process of weakening a pathogen to make it capable of inducing an immune response?

  • Cross Reactivity
  • Variolation
  • Attenuation (correct)
  • Humoral Immunity
  • Who first demonstrated that serum from immunized animals could transfer immunity to unimmunized animals?

  • Edward Jenner
  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
  • The Chinese and Turks
  • Louis Pasteur (correct)
  • What type of immunity is induced through exposure to a pathogen, such as cowpox?

    <p>Adaptive Immunity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the immunity that is naturally present in an individual, without prior exposure or vaccination?

    <p>Natural Immunity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the result of subsequent exposure to an organism previously encountered?

    <p>No effect on the host</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of immunity involves the role of thymus and bursa of Fabricius?

    <p>Cell-mediated immunity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which type of immunity involves antibodies with different specificities?

    <p>Humoral immunity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who is credited with coining the term 'allergy'?

    <p>Clemens Von Pirquet</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who developed the theory of antibody diversity known as the Template or Instructive theory?

    <p>Felix Haurowitz</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of immunity is responsible for the recognition of antigens by T cells?

    <p>Cell-mediated immunity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who developed the technique of Radioimmunoassay?

    <p>Rosalyn Yalow</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is an example of adaptive immunity?

    <p>The production of antibodies against cervical cancer</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of immunity is mediated by antibodies?

    <p>Humoral immunity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who discovered the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC)?

    <p>George Snell</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which type of immunity involves the recognition of antigens by the major histocompatibility complex?

    <p>Cell-mediated immunity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who developed the Clonal Selection Theory of Antibody Diversity?

    <p>Niels Jerne</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who developed the Mancini Test (Single Diffusion, Double Dimension)?

    <p>G.Mancini</p> Signup and view all the answers

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