Question

Our immune system is organised into innate and ___ immunity.

Answer 1

We are born with some barriers and battle stations that are inbuilt. The inbuilt battle stations are typically non-specific, that is, these battle stations are designed to prevent any kind of pathogen from attacking us. This is called innate immunity. On the other hand, we acquire immunity against a few pathogens as and when we get exposed to more and more pathogens.These acquired battle stations are designed to attack and kill specific pathogens only, and this is called acquired or adaptive immunity.