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Non-specific immunity
Label the areas of the body that have barriers to pathogens.
1. What is the function of the immune system?
Three Lines Of Defense
Non-specific
immunity: all
invaders
treated the
same way
Specific
immunity: a
specialised
response
2. What does “non-specific” immunity mean?
3. Why do cells carry markers on their outside? What does the immune
system aim to do with these markers?
4. Fill in the following table outlining the methods that the second line of nonspecific immunity works:
What are
How do they work?
Diagram
they?
Phagocytes
Complement
proteins
Interferon
Cytokines
Inflammation
Blood
clotting
5. Write down three mechanical and three chemical defenses that plants
have against disease.