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What is immunity?
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The body’s ability to fight off diseases.
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What is innate immunity?
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Not specific to different types of infection. No memory effect.
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What is adaptive immunity?
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It is selective and specific to a pathogen it remembers because they have been encountered before.
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How does vaccination work?
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A dead or disabled pathogen is introduced into the body in order to trigger an immune response without getting the disease.
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