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What is the avidity of an antibody?

Avidity is the sum of the affinities of all its binding sites.

What are two characteristics of the adaptive immune system that set it apart from the innate?

Memory and specificity



It adapts to that specific antigen and stores a copy of that specific antibody.

Cytotoxic T cells attach to which MHC?

MHC 1



Cytotox1c T Cells

All antibodies start off as this isotype...

IgM



Master antibody