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lbcchick

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Explain why an individual will accept a graft from his or her own body or an identical twin but not from another person.
 
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The sum total of all the genes contained in a cell's chromosomes is called its __________.
 
  A. gene product
  B. sum
  C. genome
  D. intron


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braelync

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Reply #1 on: Jun 25, 2018
Answer to Question 1

A graft from another person contains HLA antigens foreign to the recipient that the recipient's immune system recognizes and destroys, otherwise known as tissue rejection.

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Wow, this really help

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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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