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How does resident normal flora protect the body against pathogens?
how does residental normal flora protect the body against pathogens
How does phagocytes help to fight infections?
its role in defending your body against disease is to find and "eat" (consume i guess) bacteria, viruses, and dead or injured body cells Phagocytes defend the body by destroy pathogens. They surrounding and engulfing them.
State one specific way white blood cells help to protect the human body from pathogens?
They don't defend pathogens. They defend *against*pathogens. They poison them, they burn them with ozone / hydrogen peroxide / sodium hypochlorite / chorine dioxide, and then they eat them whole if necessary.
Which specific type of white blood cells launches the body's initial attack against pathogens?
NEUTROPHILIS
Which cells are able to protect the body by engulfing foreign cells or producing antibodies?
White-Blood Cells. Either Pathogens, or Lymphocytes.
What you the function of the white blood cells?
The main function of white blood cells (also commonly referred to as leucocytes) is to defend against foreign invading pathogens that may enter the body. They do this as they are phagocytes, in that they engulf pathogens and destroy them. Therefore, the function of a white blood cell is to defend the body against infection.
Type of phagocyte that engulfs damages cells or pathogens that have entered the body's tissues?
White blood cells are those phagocytes that engulfs the damaged cells or pathogens entering the body's tissues.
How are passive immunity and active immunity are similar?
They are similar because they both protect the body and fight against pathogens.
Process by which phagocytes destroy pathogens is called?
PhagocytosisPhagocytes make up three-quarters of the body's white blood cells. They destroy pathogens by engulfing them.It's called phagocytosis. Macrophages mainly phagocytose the pathogens.
What colorless blood cells protect the body from disease?
the white blood cell protects the body against invading pathogens.
Which cells are able to protect the body by engulfing foreign cells or protecting antibodies?
Phagocytes
Which describes how the body's immune system works?
white blood cells, called lymphocytes, destroy pathogens and protect against future infections.
