Courselo

Home
Learn
Practice(sign in to use)
Mock exams
Review(sign in to use)

Plan(sign in to use)
Progress(sign in to use)
Tutor(sign in to use)

Your plan

Save your progressA free account keeps your answers, predicts your score and builds a daily plan.Create a free account

Loading lesson

Loading your exam home

Home
Learn
Practice, sign in to use
Mocks
Review, sign in to use

Loading lesson

Advanced immunology and disease applications · A Level Biology · Courselo

Courselo

Biology
Learn
Disease, immunity and health

Advanced immunology and disease applications

Disease, immunity and health · Lesson 5 of 5

Lesson 5 of 5

Ask a tutor

Unit 4

Disease, immunity and health

5 lessons · 9 h 45 min of study

Human health, disease prevention and risk factors1 h 30 min of study
Pathogens, transmission and communicable disease1 h 45 min of study
Immune responses, vaccination and antibody technologies2 h of study
Diagnostics, screening and forensic biology1 h 30 min of study
Advanced immunology and disease applicationsReading · 0%

This unit is ≈11% of the Biology, across 5 lessons. Full syllabus

Lesson 5 of 5 · Disease, immunity and health

Advanced immunology and disease applications

3 quick checks≈4% of the testStretch: Stretch: harder material that separates the top grades

Reading is free. Sign in to tick off lessons, keep your place and track your mastery.

By the end you’ll be able to

Describe how specific immune responses are initiated, amplified and regulated.
Explain the immunological basis of allergy, autoimmune disease and immunodeficiency.
Interpret why tissue typing, immunosuppressants and matching are needed in transplantation.
Assess how vaccination programmes and immune-based therapies reduce disease burden.

Practice this skill

Adaptive questions on advanced immunology and disease applications.

Practise this topic

0% read

Apply immunological principles to unfamiliar clinical and epidemiological scenarios.

This lesson hasn’t been written yet

Biology lessons are written from the official syllabus the first time a learner opens them, then saved for everyone. Sign in and this one is written for you in a minute or two. It’s free.

PreviousDiagnostics, screening and forensic biology Next lessonPhotosynthesis: light-dependent and light-independent reactions