The efficiency and specificity of adaptive immune defenses and immunological memory improve each time a particular pathogen is encountered because _____

a. of protective immunity
b. effector memory T cells outnumber central memory T cells
c. the half-life of antibodies made in secondary and tertiary immune responses exceeds that of antibodies made in primary immune responses.
d. of affinity maturation.


D

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