Would Antibodies Produced by a Patient in Response to Infection

question 42

Multiple Choice

Would antibodies produced by a patient in response to infection be monoclonal,or polyclonal?

• A)Since the infection is from only a single agent/microbe,the antibodies would be monoclonal.
• B)Since a single pathogen has multiple antigens,and each antigen has multiple epitopes,the responding antibodies to a whole pathogen would be polyclonal.
• C)Since the pathogen would most likely mutate slightly during the infection (producing different epitopes),the responding antibodies would be polyclonal.
• D)Since the pathogen would acquire and modify self-antigens during the infectious process,the antibodies produced during the response would be polyclonal.

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