You sit next to Uncle Ed, an immunologist, at Thanksgiving dinner. "I'm a 'big eater'," he says, "just like the cells I study." What are the large cells that engulf pathogens that Uncle Ed works with?
A. Monocytes
B. Antibodies
C. Bacteriophages
D. Macrophages
E. Erythrocytes
Answer: D
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