Correct Answer - Option 2 : inoculation
Inoculation: It is a method of artificially inducing immunity against various infectious diseases. The terms inoculation, vaccination, and immunization are often used synonymously.
- It is to introduce immunologically active material (such as an antibody or antigen), especially in order to treat or prevent disease.
- It is to introduce (something, such as a microorganism) into a suitable situation for growth.
- It is a process to give a weak form of a disease to a person or animal, usually by injection, as a protection against that disease:
- The phenomena of producing immunity and vaccination technique consisting of introducing infectious agents into an absorptive surface of skin, in contrast to introducing the substance in tissues through injecting is inoculation.
- It is the process of introducing microbes into a culture media.
- It reproduces into a culture media.
- Commonly, it is used in the introduction of vaccines, serum or any antigenic substance in the body so as to boost immunity against a particular disease.
- This process of Inoculation is carried out in different media such as – plate culture, slant culture, agar plates, stab culture, sweep plate method and so on.
Notice other keywords:
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Modelling: It means to copy or imitate someone, generally students imitate those friend who smoke in order to look "cool".
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Peer pressure: Then there are students who come under peer pressure, and begin to smoke.
Hence, we conclude that inoculation is not responsible for smoking.