In what way is the thymic situation advantageous for the purposes of negative selection?

What will be an ideal response?


Generating a more comprehensive repertoire of self peptides in the thymus increases the types of potentially autoreactive T cell that are removed from the peripheral T-cell repertoire during negative selection.

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a. liver b. kidney c. brain d. thyroid e. lung

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Fungi are

a. eukaryotic with cell walls made of chitin and glucan b. prokaryotic with cell walls made of peptidoglycan c. multicellular in yeast form d. unicellular in mold form

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Medical terms with two syllables are usually accented on the second syllable.?

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Which of the following is an example of anaerobic exercise?

A) taking a Zumba class B) cycling C) using resistance bands D) swimming

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