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FINAL: SPRING 2021 P ART 2 – Immune S ystem Choose ONE of the scenarios and e xplain what the immune s y stem is doing. Y our explana tion should be 7 – 10 c omplete sen tences. Diagr ams/drawings migh t be help ful. In y our descrip tion, correctly use, a t leas t 8 of these v ocabular y words: Adap tive/acquir ed immune r esponse An tibody An tigen Cy tot oxic T -cell F e ver Helper T -cell His tamine In flamma tion Inna te immune r esponse Macr ophag e Mas t cell Memor y B-cell Na tur al killer cell Neutr ophil P athog en Plasma B-cell Pus Scenario A : A pa tient comes in with s ymptoms of f e ver , loss of appe tite, a sor e throat. Y ou, the doct or, think tha t it might be a bact erial infection and pr escribe an tibiotics. The pa tient tak es the an tibiotics ho wever the s ymptoms do not g o away. Wha t is the pa tient’s body doing t o figh t the disease? Scenario B : Y ou ar e hurr ying to finish w orking with some w ood to mak e a paper w eight. A splin ter fr om y our mas terpiece ends up in y our hand. Y ou pull the splin ter out, but la te tha t nigh t, your fing er becomes s wollen and r ed. A few da ys la ter the en tire hand is s wollen, the pain is in tense, and y ou develop a f ever . Wha t is g oing on? Scenario C : Y ou find out tha t one of your ances tor s had lepr osy, c aused b y the Myc obact erium leprae bact eria. The r elative w orked in a leper c olony f or 25 y ears in wha t is now Hawaii. The r ela tive did not de velop lepr osy un til soon be for e lea ving ther e. What does the body do t o fight the bact eria? W rit e y our par agraph her e (some sen tences pr ovided if y ou w ant them) : In scenario ______ the s ymptoms indic ate tha t the immune s ystem is w orking in the f ollowing w ay …