What is the primary difference between the innate and adaptive im...

Question

What is the primary difference between the innate and adaptive immune responses?

a. The innate immune response does not distinguish between pathogens, while the adaptive immune response does.
b. Only the innate immune response is activated by antigens.
c. The adaptive immune response generates immunological memory and is more specific than the innate immune response.
d. The innate immune response does not kill cells; the adaptive immune response does.

Accepted Answer

Hello everyone and welcome to today's video. So which of the following statements about the adaptive immune response is incorrect. Remember that? We're looking for the false statement among our answer choices. And let's begin by answer choice A. It confirms long term immunity. Well this is a very important characteristic of the adaptive immune system. It contains these memory cells and these memory cells help recognize a current pathogen and mount a future protection against recurrent infections. So because of this this is going to be a correct answer choice and we're going to cancel it out. And we have be its components only buying two specific sites on specific antigens. Well this is true because each antibody is specific to an antigen or just a pathogen and the sites that they bind to are very specific and they're called episodes. So these complete answer choice is correct. And we're going to cancel it out. Finally we have answer choice. It is carried out by B and T cells. Well this is correct as well because it's B and T cells are the ones that made up the adaptive immune system. So we're going to cancel. The only answer choice that is left is C. Is present at birth. Well this is incorrect and this is one reason why babies are so fragile. Well babies do not contain an adaptive immune response as this response is built over time so they do not have a lot of anti bodies. This is why breast milk is so important that breast milk transfers antibodies to the baby from the mother in order for the baby to be protected against infections. So because of this, these answer choices actually incorrect, and we're going to be highlighting it as a final answer to our question. This is the end of the video, and I really hope this helped you.

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