Distinguish between a specific and a nonspecific response... im talking about responses in an immune system.?

Answer 1

If you catch a cold, the bug enters your blood system where upon the white cells react. This is a specific response to an attack from the cold, bug. A non-specific response, where you have no bug, invader, but your immune system thinks you have, therefore goes off attacking anything it believes to be a foreign invader. Auto-antibodies are generated.

Answer 2

A non-specific response would be an increase in the white blood cell count in response to an infection as opposed to the production of antibodies to a specific disease, such as one you have had before or one for which you have been vaccinated.