After teaching a class about humoral and cellular immunity, the nurse recognizes that the additional teaching is needed when the class states that:
A) humoral immunity crosses the placenta.
B) cellular immunity involves the T lymphocytes.
C) cellular immunity recognizes antigens.
D) humoral immunity does not destroy the foreign cell.
Ans: C
Humoral immunity recognizes antigens and cellular immunity does not. Humoral immunity crosses the placenta in the form of IgG. Cellular immunity involves the action of T lymphocytes, and humoral immunity does not destroy the foreign cell.
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