The adaptive immune system recognizes infections based on information from the innate immune system and mounts a targeted response.

“the third component of your immune system is What's called the Adaptive immune system and I alluded to this aspect of your immune system a little bit earlier the Adaptive immune system is the aspect of your immune system that recognizes because the innate immune system told it that something has infected the body at some level at some organ or set of organs and there's an emergency and the Adaptive immune system goes in and in a very targeted way figures out what sorts of proteins it needs to produce”