1. Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master subtitle style CLICKER QUESTIONS For CAMPBELL BIOLOGY, NINTH EDITION Jane B. Reece, Lisa A. Urry, Michael L. Cain, Steven A. Wasserman, Peter V. Minorsky, Robert B. Jackson © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. The Immune System Chapter 43 Questions prepared by Jung Choi Georgia Institute of Technology John Lepri University of North Carolina, Greensboro

2. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Innate immunity is present a)only in mammals. b)only in vertebrates. c)only in animals. d)in eukaryotes but not in prokaryotes. e)in all three domains of life, including eubacteria and archaea.

3. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Recombinase genes RAG1 and RAG2 are found only in jawed vertebrates, supporting the hypothesis that a)jawless vertebrates have immune memory. b)jawless vertebrates employ combinatorial DNA rearrangements to increase antigen receptor diversity. c)sharks lack an adaptive immune system that responds to diverse antigens. d)human genomes do not recombine DNA segments in antigen receptor genes.

4. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. People need a flu shot each year because a)the flu vaccine is only weakly immunogenic and requires multiple shots to take effect. b)the immune memory for flu is short-lived. c)new strains of influenza virus arise rapidly each year. d)influenza impairs the immune system’s ability.

5. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Even when _______ is implanted multiple times into a vertebrate body, it would likely fail to provoke production of antibodies. a)a pathogenic virus b)a nonpathogenic bacterium c)a protein toxin d)a plastic bead e)a piece of plant leaf

6. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. HIV-associated depletion of helper T cells and macrophages will impair a)the acid mantle of the skin. b)the activation of cytotoxic T cells. c)innate immunity. d)the complement system.

7. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Ignoring heavy-chain DNA for the moment, antigen-receptor light-chain DNA with 20 V and 5 J segment genes can be recombined into a)25 possible combinations b)100 possible combinations c)400,000 possible combinations d)1 million possible combinations

8. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. To fight viral infections, it is most effective to activate a)B cells. b)cytotoxic T cells. c)macrophages. d)the inflammatory response.

9. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. To clone your pet cat when all you have is a sample of its blood, you should use a a)B cell as the nuclear donor. b)T cell as the nuclear donor. c)macrophage as the nuclear donor. d)red blood cell as the nuclear donor.

10. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. To genetically engineer pigs to become sources of organs and tissue for transplantation to humans, it will be necessary to replace pig genes with the human version for a)the MHC loci. b)the immunoglobulin genes. c)the T cell receptor genes. d)all of the above. e)all protein-coding genes.