PATHOLOGY

PATHOLOGY MCQ

IMMUNE RESPONSE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is phagocytosis?
A
WBCs
B
When a cells eat other cells
C
When a cell collapses
D
When a cell releases nutrients
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Phagocytosis is an important process for nutrition in unicellular organisms, while in multicellular organisms it is found in specialized cells called phagocytes. Phagocytosis consists in recognition and ingestion of particles larger than 0.5 m into a plasma membrane derived vesicle, known as phagosome.

Detailed explanation-2: -Listen to pronunciation. (FA-goh-sy-TOH-sis) The process by which a phagocyte (a type of white blood cell) surrounds and destroys foreign substances (such as bacteria) and removes dead cells.

Detailed explanation-3: -Phagocytosis is a process wherein a cell binds to the item it wants to engulf on the cell surface and draws the item inward while engulfing around it. The process of phagocytosis often happens when the cell is trying to destroy something, like a virus or an infected cell, and is often used by immune system cells.

Detailed explanation-4: -Larger particles such as microbes, bacteria and cellular debris are internalised in a process called phagocytosis, which you can consider as “cell eating”. While pinocytosis, is performed by almost all cellular types, phagocytosis is pretty much limited to immune cells, like macrophages.

Detailed explanation-5: -Neutrophils are phagocytes, cells that consume invading pathogens. Lymphocytes, the second most common type of white blood cell, disseminate through the organs and tissues of the lymphatic system. Lymphocytes target specific pathogens as part of the immune response.

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