Campbell Biology in Focus, 2e (Urry)
Chapter 35 The Immune System
35.1 Multiple-Choice Questions
1) Innate immunity
A) is activated immediately upon infection.
B) depends on a newly infected animal’s previous exposure to the same pathogen.
C) is based on recognition of antigens that are specific to different pathogens.
D) is found only in vertebrate animals.
E) utilizes highly specific antigen receptors on B cells.
2) Acidity in human sweat is an example of
A) cell-mediated immune response.
B) acquired immunity.
C) adaptive immunity.
D) innate immunity.
3) A fruit fly, internally infected by a potentially pathogenic fungus, is protected by
A) its plasma cells.
B) its immunoglobulins.
C) its antibodies.
D) its antimicrobial peptides.
E) its B cells.
4) Engulfing-phagocytic cells of innate immunity include all of the following except
A) neutrophils.
B) macrophages.
C) dendritic cells.
D) natural killer cells.
5) An inflammation-causing signal released by mast cells at the site of an infection is (are)
A) interferons.
B) lymph.
C) histamine.
D) mucus.
E) antibodies.
6) A systemic inflammatory response that is often life-threatening is
A) mild fever.
B) aches and dull pain.
C) septic shock.
D) high blood pressure.
E) increased white blood cell count.
7) The eyes and the respiratory tract are both protected against infections by
A) the mucous membranes that cover their surface.
B) the secretion of complement proteins.
C) the release of slightly alkaline secretions.
D) the secretion of lysozyme onto their surfaces.
E) interferons produced by immune cells.
8) Salmonella bacterial poisoning can be initiated when
A) the microbe survives the acidic environment of the stomach and resists lysosomal degradation
in macrophages.
B) there is a delay in selection of the population of eosinophils that recognize and fight these
microbes.
C) microbes release chemical messengers that make them resistant to phagocytosis.
D) the combination of foods eaten at a meal reduces the pH of the stomach sufficiently so that
ingested microbes are not destroyed.
9) The complement system is
A) a set of proteins involved in innate but not acquired immunity.
B) a set of proteins secreted by cytotoxic T cells and other CD8 cells.
C) a group of proteins that includes interferons.
D) a group of antimicrobial proteins that act together in a cascade fashion.
E) a set of proteins that act individually to attack and lyse microbes.
10) Cave art by early humans recognized the existence of the major signs of inflammation. The
most inclusive set of symptoms of inflammation that might appear in such early human art is
A) heat, pain, and redness only.
B) pain and whitening of the surrounding tissue.
C) swelling and pain only.
D) antibody-producing cells.
E) swelling, heat, redness, and pain.
11) The cells and signaling molecules that initiate inflammatory responses are
A) the phagocytes and the lysozymes.
B) the phagocytes and the histamines.
C) the dendritic cells and the interferons.
D) the mast cells and the histamines.
E) the lymphocytes and the interferons.
12) Inflammatory responses typically include
A) clotting proteins migrating away from the site of infection.
B) increased activity of phagocytes in an inflamed area.
C) reduced permeability of blood vessels to conserve plasma.
D) release of substances to decrease the blood supply to an inflamed area.
E) inhibiting the release of white blood cells from bone marrow.
13) Bacteria entering the body through a small cut in the skin
A) inactivate red blood cells.
B) stimulate apoptosis of nearby body cells.
C) stimulate release of interferons.
D) stimulate natural killer cell activity.
E) activate a group of proteins called complement.
14) An invertebrate, such as an insect, has innate immunity activity in its intestine that likely
includes
A) complement.
B) lysozyme.
C) mucus.
D) neutrophils.
E) dendritic cells.
15) In some insects, such as Drosophila, fungal cell wall elements can activate the protein Toll,
which
A) acts as a receptor that, when activated, signals synthesis of antimicrobial peptides.
B) functions directly to attack the fungi presented to it.
C) produces antimicrobial peptides by interaction with chitin.
D) secretes special recognition signal molecules that identify specific pathogens.
E) causes some hemocytes to phagocytize the pathogens.
16) Mammals have Toll-like receptors (TLRs) that can recognize a kind of macromolecule that is
absent from vertebrates but present in/on certain groups of pathogens, including viral
A) lipopolysaccharides.
B) double-stranded DNA.
C) double-stranded RNA.
D) glycoproteins.
E) phospholipids.
17) Histamines trigger dilation of nearby blood vessels as well as an increase in their
permeability, producing
A) redness and heat only.
B) swelling only.
C) pain only.
D) redness, heat, and swelling.
18) Septic shock, a systemic response including high fever and low blood pressure, is a response
to
A) certain bacterial infections.
B) specific forms of viruses.
C) the presence of natural killer cells.
D) a fever of >103°F in adults.
E) increased production of neutrophils.
19) Infection by a bacterium that has elements on its surface that enhance its resistance to
lysozyme will likely result in
A) destruction of the bacterium by natural killer cells.
B) successful reproduction of the bacterium and continued progression of the disease.
C) an ineffective adaptive immunity response.
D) the infected individual’s humoral immunity becoming the only route of infection response.
E) lymphocytes migrating from the thymus to attack the bacterium.
20) Adaptive immunity depends on
A) traits common to groups of pathogens.
B) pathogen-specific recognition.
C) maternal provision of antibodies to offspring.
D) plants being exposed to new pathogens.
E) having exhausted all options for innate immunity responses.
21) Bacterial infection in a previously uninfected house cat would most quickly activate its
A) toll-like receptors that bind to lipopolysaccharides.
B) memory cells to produce antibodies.
C) plasma cells to produce antigens.
D) cytotoxic T cells.
E) humoral immune responses.
22) Suppose that there is a phagocytic cell in which the pH inside the lysosome is significantly
higher than normal. What outcome regarding phagocytosis is most likely to occur?
A) Phagocytosis will be able to proceed normally.
B) Pathogens will able to be broken down, but not released from the cell.
C) Pathogens will not be able to enter the cell.
D) Pathogens will be able to enter the cell but will not be able to be broken down.
23) An epitope is
A) part of the interferons that penetrate foreign cells.
B) a protein protruding from the surface of B cells.
C) two structurally similar antibodies dissolved in the blood plasma.
D) the part of an antigen that binds to an antigen receptor.
E) another name for a bacterial antigen.
24) B cells have antigen receptors that bind to antigens that are either freely dissolved or present
on the surface of invading/foreign cells. T cells have antigen receptors that
A) are active only in lymph nodes.
B) bind only to antigens present on the surface of the invading/foreign cells.
C) bind only to freely dissolved antigens in the plasma.
D) bind to antigen fragments presented on major histocompatibility complexes by host cells.
E) bind to antigens that are either freely dissolved or present on the surface of invading/foreign
cells.
25) Clonal selection of B cells activated by antigen exposure leads to production of
A) large numbers of neutrophils.
B) large quantities of the antigen initially recognized.
C) vast numbers of B cells with random antigen-recognition receptors.
D) long-lived red blood cells that can later secrete antibodies for the antigen.
E) short-lived plasma cells that secrete antibodies for the antigen.
26) Antigens are
A) proteins found in the blood that cause foreign blood cells to clump.
B) foreign molecules that become embedded in B cell membranes.
C) proteins that consist of two light and two heavy polypeptide chains.
D) foreign molecules that trigger the generation of antibodies.
E) proteins released during an inflammatory response.
27) A newborn who is accidentally given a drug that destroys the thymus would most likely
A) lack class I MHC molecules on cell surfaces.
B) lack humoral immunity.
C) be unable to genetically rearrange antigen receptors.
D) be unable to produce mature T cells.
E) have a reduced number of B cells and be unable to form antibodies.
28) Clonal selection implies that
A) brothers and sisters have similar immune responses.
B) antigens increase mitosis in specific lymphocytes.
C) only certain cells can produce interferon.
D) a B cell has multiple types of antigen receptors.
E) the body selects which antigens to which to respond.
29) Clonal selection is an explanation for how
A) a single type of stem cell can produce both red blood cells and white blood cells.
B) V, J, and C gene segments are rearranged.
C) an antigen can provoke production of high levels of specific antibodies.
D) HIV can disrupt the immune system.
E) macrophages can recognize specific T cells and B cells.
30) The MHC is important in a T cell’s ability to
A) trigger an adaptive immune response.
B) recognize specific parasitic pathogens.
C) identify specific bacterial pathogens.
D) identify specific viruses.
E) trigger an innate immune response.
31) An immunoglobulin (Ig) molecule with regions symbolized as C, V, H, or L has a light chain
made up of
A) one C region and one V region.
B) three C regions and one V region.
C) one H region and one L region.
D) three H regions and one L region.
E) two C regions and two V regions.
32) The ability of one person to produce over a million different antibody molecules does not
require over a million different genes; rather, this wide range of antibody production is due to
A) alternative splicing of exons after transcription.
B) increased rate of mutation in the RNA molecules.
C) rearrangements of randomly selected V and J fragments.
D) expression of different cytosolic proteins in the thymus cells.
E) crossing over between the light and heavy chains of each antibody molecule during meiosis I.
33) Immunological memory accounts for
A) the human body’s ability to distinguish self from nonself.
B) the observation that some strains of the pathogen that causes dengue fever cause worse
disease than others.
C) the ability of a helper T cell to signal B cells via cytokines.
D) the ancient observation that someone who had recovered from the plague could safely care
for those newly diseased.
E) the ability of the immune system to present antigen fragments in association with MHC
antigens.
34) The function of antibodies is to
A) inject toxins into living pathogens.
B) secrete cytokines that attract macrophages to infection sites.
C) release perforins to disrupt infected cells.
D) act as Toll-like receptors.
E) mark pathogenic cells for destruction.
35) Jenner’s successful use of cowpox virus as a vaccine against the smallpox virus is due to the
fact that
A) the immune system responds nonspecifically to antigens.
B) the cowpox virus made antibodies in response to the presence of smallpox.
C) cowpox and smallpox are antibodies with similar immunizing properties.
D) there are some antigenic determinants common to both pox viruses.
E) cowpox and smallpox are caused by the same virus.
36) Antibodies are made up of
A) one heavy chain and one light chain.
B) two heavy chains and two light chains.
C) three heavy chains and three light chains.
D) four heavy chains and four light chains.
37) For the successful development of a vaccine to be used against a pathogen, it is necessary
that
A) the surface antigens of the pathogen do not change.
B) a rearrangement of the B cell receptor antibodies takes place.
C) all of the surface antigens on the pathogen be identified.
D) the pathogen has only one epitope.
E) the MHC molecules are heterozygous.
38) The switch of a B cell from producing one class of antibody to another antibody class that is
responsive to the same antigen is due to
A) mutation in the genes of that B cell, induced by exposure to the antigen.
B) the rearrangement of V region genes in that clone of responsive B cells.
C) a switch in the kind of antigen-presenting cell that is involved in the immune response.
D) a patient’s reaction to the first kind of antibody made by the plasma cells.
E) the rearrangement of immunoglobulin heavy-chain C region DNA.
39) The number of MHC protein combinations possible in a given population is enormous.
However, an individual in that diverse population has a far more limited array of MHC
molecules because
A) the MHC proteins are made from several different gene regions that are capable of
rearranging in a number of ways.
B) MHC proteins from one individual can only be of class I or class II.
C) each of the MHC genes has a large number of alleles, but each individual only inherits two
for each gene.
D) once a B cell has matured in the bone marrow, it is limited to two MHC response categories.
E) once a T cell has matured in the thymus, it can only respond to two MHC categories.
40) Antihistamine treatment reduces
A) blood vessel dilation.
B) phagocytosis of antigens.
C) MHC presentation by macrophages.
D) the secondary immune response.
E) clonal selection by antigens.
41) A key part of the humoral immune response is
A) the attack of cytotoxic T cells on infected host cells.
B) the production of antibodies by plasma cells.
C) perforation of infected host cells by perforin.
D) the attack of phagocytes on living pathogens.
E) the initiation of programmed cell death in infected host cells.
42) The receptors on T cells and B cells bind to
A) antibodies.
B) antigens.
C) natural killer cells.
D) double-stranded RNA.
E) immunoglobulins.
43) Secondary immune responses upon a second exposure to a pathogen are due to the activation
of
A) memory cells.
B) macrophages.
C) stem cells.
D) B cells.
E) T cells.
44) A patient who can produce antibodies against some bacterial pathogens, but not against viral
infections, probably has a disorder in his
A) B cells.
B) plasma cells.
C) natural killer cells.
D) T cells.
E) macrophages.
45) The activation of helper T cells is likely
A) when an antigen is displayed by a dendritic cell.
B) when a cytotoxic T cell releases cytokines.
C) when natural killer (NK) cells come in contact with a tumor cell.
D) when B cells respond to T-independent antigens.
46) Which type of immunity is present only when a newborn infant is fed by nursing and ends
when nursing ends?
A) innate immunity
B) active immunity
C) passive immunity
D) cell-mediated immunity
E) adaptive immunity
47) Yearly vaccination of humans for influenza viruses is necessary because
A) of an increase in immunodeficiency diseases.
B) flu can generate anaphylactic shock.
C) surviving the flu one year exhausts the immune system to nonresponsiveness the second year.
D) rapid mutation in flu viruses alters the surface proteins in infected host cells.
E) flu leads to autoimmune disorders.
48) The cell-mediated immunity that destroys virally infected cells involves
A) cytotoxic T cells.
B) natural killer cells.
C) helper T cells.
D) macrophages.
E) B cells.
49) Which of the following cells are involved in cell-mediated immunity and also respond to
class I MHC molecule-antigen complexes?
A) cytotoxic T cells
B) natural killer cells
C) helper T cells
D) macrophages
E) B cells
50) Select the pathway that would lead to the activation of cytotoxic T cells.
A) B cells contact antigen → helper T cell is activated → clonal selection occurs
B) body cell becomes infected with a virus → new viral proteins appear → class I MHC
molecule-antigen complex displayed on cell surface
C) self-tolerance of immune cells → B cells contact antigen → cytokines released
D) complement is secreted → B cell contacts antigen → helper T cell activated → cytokines
released
E) cytotoxic T cells → class II MHC molecule–antigen complex displayed → cytokines released
→ cell lysis
51) Among the last line of defenses against prolonged exposure to an extracellular pathogen is
A) lysozyme production.
B) phagocytosis by neutrophils.
C) antibody production by plasma cells.
D) histamine release by basophils.
E) conversion of helper T cells to memory helper T cells.
52) Arrange these components of the mammalian immune system as it first responds to a
pathogen in the correct sequence.
I. Pathogen is destroyed.
II. Lymphocytes secrete antibodies.
III. Antigenic determinants from pathogen bind to antigen receptors on lymphocytes.
IV. Lymphocytes specific to antigenic determinants from pathogen become numerous.
V. Only memory cells remain.
A) I → III → II → IV → V
B) III → II → I → V → IV
C) II → I → IV → III → V
D) IV → II → III → I → V
E) III → IV → II → I → V
53) A cell type that interacts with both the humoral and cell-mediated immune pathways is a
A) plasma cell.
B) cytotoxic T cell.
C) natural killer cell.
D) CD8 cell.
E) helper T cell.
54) A nonfunctional CD4 protein on a helper T cell would result in the helper T cell being unable
to
A) respond to T-independent antigens.
B) lyse tumor cells.
C) stimulate a cytotoxic T cell.
D) interact with a class I MHC-antigen complex.
E) interact with a class II MHC-antigen complex.
55) T cells of the immune system include
A) CD4, CD8, and plasma cells.
B) cytotoxic and helper cells.
C) plasma, antigen-presenting, and memory cells.
D) lymphocytes, macrophages, and dendritic cells.
E) class I MHC, class II MHC, and memory cells.
56) B cells that interact with helper T cells are stimulated to differentiate when
A) B cells produce antibodies.
B) B cells release cytokines.
C) helper T cells present the class II MHC molecule-antigen complex on their surface.
D) helper T cells differentiate into cytotoxic T cells.
E) helper T cells release cytokines.
57) Normal immune responses can be described as polyclonal because
A) blood contains many different antibodies and antigens.
B) multiple immunoglobulins are produced from descendants of a single B cell.
C) diverse antibodies are produced for different epitopes of a specific antigen.
D) macrophages, T cells, and B cells all are involved in a normal immune response.