Question

Classify the responses in the given situations as part of innate immune response or adaptive immune response.a liver is transplanted from a donor to a recipient a person is injected with the typhoid vaccine swelling occurs around the area of a scratch a person has a high fever during a viral infection

Answer 1

• a liver is transplanted from a donor to a recipient - adaptive immune response (via T killer cells or B cells)

• a person is injected with the typhoid vaccine-adaptive immune response (The immune response to vaccination may not be perceived as illness but still confers immune memory)

• swelling occurs around the area of a scratch-innate immune response (inflammation)

• a person has a high fever during a viral infection-innate immune response(includes substances called interferon and interleukin-1 which causes fever).