The Human Immune System

 Have you ever wondered why a bump appears on your arm when a mosquito bites you? This is a perfect example showing how your body is protected by your immune system! The immune system protects an individual’s body from infections, illnesses, and diseases. There are 2 types of immunity: innate immunity and adaptive immunity. While innate immunity are protections already present in the body, adaptive immunity is determined by the human body’s exposure to a foreign substance. The immune system is further broken down into several parts that each have their own role when an invader enters the body. Some may directly attack the pathogen, while others may help the body develop immunity.

Here is a photo giving a summary of what happens when a pathogen enters the human body.

Overall, I am very proud of my first sketch note in AP Bio! I am not the best at drawing, so I was really impressed with the turnout. This method of note taking tested my creativity and organization skills as I had to convey what the immune system is and the process through different forms of media. Something I hope to improve for next time is making the arrows a little more clear. I used a lot and making all of the arrows one color can be difficult for someone to keep track or follow along.

Virus CDQ: How is vaccine inequity affecting global herd immunity?

Hello everyone and welcome back to my website! I hope you enjoyed exploring the biology world through my website so far! Have you ever thought about the distribution of vaccines? Have you ever been curious about which countries are vaccine-deprived? What about the effects on herd immunity? Well, dive into these interesting questions with me. As the end of our unit about viruses in my AP bio class has arrived , me and my hardworking teammates, Ariel and Olivia, created a video to answer our curious question, which may be yours too! We spent 85% of our time researching as planned. A lot was added to my knowledge during this activity and I'm so glad about it. Let's watch the video first. We had to work on our story table before we start making the video and it took a little too long to get approval from our teacher. But as soon as our story table got approved, we spent most of our next days working on the video; even our collaboration time at school :) Our video turned out good actually. We were not expecting it to be done by the due time but we did it! I'm so proud of my team and how we cooperated the whole time and shared ideas. It was a great experience overall. I hope the viewer enjoyed and learnt from this content.