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The “Lake Wobegon” effect refers to all states reporting average student scores above the national average. Give two reasons, according to the textbook, why this occurred. Provide only two answers.

Macrophages’ activation requires the following:

Binding of CD40L to CD40 yields the following benefits

Which of the following mechanisms is unlikely to be involved in neutralizing a virus?

The majority of genetic defects in humans that cause autoimmune diseases are in genes that regulate T cell responses. These include the AIRE, CTLA4, FOXP3, and FAS genes. These findings indicate that B cells and innate immune cells are not important in autoimmunity.

The prevention of inflammatory immune responses to inhaled antigens in healthy individuals has mechanisms in common with those that prevent inflammatory immune responses to commensal microbes in the gut. One important component of immune regulation shared by these two situations is:

Red blood cells are common targets of drug-induced anemia, where  IgG antibodies  bind to the drug-coated red blood cell and promote red blood cell destruction. The drug binding to the red blood cell surface does not actually harm the red blood cell, the anemia resulting in this disorder is caused by:

On any test given at BYU, how many students can be expected to perform above the average?

Which of the following responses correctly matches the phase of allergic response with its cellular and molecular effectors?

Antigens from immunologically privileged sites