Immunity ____

a. is always adaptive
b. is an organism's ability to resist and combat infections
c. evolved after the emergence of multicellular organisms
d. is only found in mammals
e. is not specific for any given pathogen


ANSWER: b

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a. blastocyst outer layers. b. blastocyst inner cell mass. c. gastrula mesoderm. d. gastrula ectoderm. e. gastrula endoderm

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A. The resulting daughter cells would be completely normal. B. The resulting daughter cells would have different numbers of chromosomes. C. The resulting daughter cells would not have a nuclear envelope. D. The resulting daughter cells would have significantly different quantities of cytoplasmic materials.

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