CELL WARS VIDEO GUIDE
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Date ________________
Give brief answers to the following questions that follow along with the video. Do your best to keep up!
1. What is our defense against microbes and parasites?
2. How is the flu virus transmitted?
3. How long has vaccination been used?
4. How does the body defend against viruses?
5. Why is the flu virus so hard to destroy?
6. How does the flu virus change so easily?
7. The flu virus fools the immune system. Explain this statement.
8. The 1968 Hong Kong virus changed a great deal from its last strain? How did this happen?
9. What parasite lives with their male and female varieties connected inside the human body?
10. How does the schistosome hide from the immune system of the host?
11. Name one autoimmune disease.
12. Why doesn’t the body attack the food we eat? Isn’t the food an “invader”?
13. Using a few sentences and some pictures, describe how the immune system works. This should be
quality work, reflecting previous knowledge as well as the material presented in the video today. (Fill
the space below with information.)