GCSE Biology – Immune system

Last updated: 30/05/2020
AQA GCSE Science – Combined science foundation Infection and response GCSE Biology – Immune system

Learning Objectives

-I can describe how the body protects itself from disease (skin, nose, trachea, bronchi and stomach)
-I can explain the role of the immune system
-I can describe the different roles white blood cells play in the immune system

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  1. Which of these defends the body from disease?

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  2. Why is the skin called a primary defence to disease?

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  3. How does skin defend the body from disease?

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  4. How else does skin defend the body from disease?

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  5. What does the skin do when you cut yourself?

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  6. What does hair and mucus do in your nose?

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  7. What is the trachea a part of?

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  8. What does mucus in your trachea do?

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  9. What do cilia do in your trachea?

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  10. What does the bronchi release to defend the body against disease?

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  11. Name a disease defence in the digestive system.

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  12. How does the stomach defend the body against disease?

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  13. What are the respiratory and digestive systems’ adaptions for?

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  14. What is the role of the immune system?

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  15. What happens if a pathogen enters the body?

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  16. What does each pathogen that enters the body need?

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  17. What do white blood cells do?

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  18. Why are white blood cells called a secondary defence to disease?

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  19. What can some white blood cells produce?

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  20. What can some white blood cells produce?

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  21. What do antibodies do?

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  22. How specific are antibodies?

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  23. What do antitoxins do?

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  24. What type of cell is phagocyte cell?

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  25. What type of cell is lymphocyte cell?

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