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The Adaptive Response

Your body builds millions of different lymphocytes before it meets a single microbe. Each one reads one epitope. Pick an antigen below and watch the bench find the one cell that fits. Then step the days forward. The same bench tests all three hallmarks: specificity, memory, and self-tolerance.

The repertoire, waitingday 0

Clonal selection and the two branches of adaptive immunity
Matching clones
0
Days since exposure
0
Response strength
none

Pick an antigen, then press Expose.

Protection on filememory, antigen by antigen

Nothing on file yet
Memory is filed one antigen at a time. That is specificity.
Clonal selection benchpick an antigen to begin
Which antigen arrives?
Quality control