What is the heart (which pumps your blood around your body) made of?
Muscle - which allows it to contract & relax to push blood
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Name the chemical markers on all cells that your immune system uses to identify if a cell is one of yours or a foreign cell
Antigens
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Name the 3 types of blood vessels in your body
Arteries, Capillaries & Veins
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What is the name of the lymphocytes that stay in your blood stream once you have encountered a pathogen an mean you are immune to it?
Memory cells
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Which type of white blood cell can surround, engulf and digest pathogens with foreign antigens on their surface?
Phagocytes
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What name do we give to the two valves that separate the ventricles from the arteries & stop blood flowing back into the heart?
Semilunar valves
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Name the two types of white blood cells that are involved in the immune response
Phagocytes and Lymphocytes
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Which type of blood vessels are where the exchange of substances like oxygen & carbon dioxide occur between the blood & cells (and therefore they have a wall that's only 1 cell thick)
Capillaries
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Which type of blood vessel carries high pressure blood away from your heart?