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What are the body's three lines of defence in relation to infection?
Mucous membranes, phagocytosis, immune response.
What activity does cell 1 undertake to contribute to the body's defense against injury and infection?
phagocytosis of foreign materials
What is a granulocyte that fights infection by phagocytosis?
macrophage
Which foods protect body from infection?
None directly. But a well nourished body is more resistant to infection.
What are the benefits and drawbacks of phagocytosis?
The main benefit of phagocytosis is that it is a natural defense against bacterial infection. Drawbacks are that you can get coiling phagocytosis and it could destroy good bacteria.
Process of engulfing invading organisms at the site of infection?
phagocytosis
What body systems work together to protect the body form infection?
Immune system
What are the blood cells that protect the body from infection?
White blood cells
What fights infection?
The white blood cells in your body fight infection by phagocytosis. Phagocytosis is a type of endocytosis which is the movement of materials into the cell. You can look at the process kind of like sticking your finger into a balloon. The material gets completely surrounded, the membrane pinches together forming a vesicle inside the cytoplasm of the cell!
Why are cancer cells damaging the body?
Because your white blood cells try's to protect your body from infection
Why are cancer cells damaging to the body?
Because your white blood cells try's to protect your body from infection
What are considered innate body defenses?
Phagocytosis
