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a. giving a series of injections that depress the immune systems of recipients
b. changing genetic markers in humans to make them more receptive to nonhuman tissue
c. cloning donor animals using human DNA
d. introducing a complement genes to both the donor animal and recipient human

e. altering the patient's MHC complex


b

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