Failure of Self-Tolerance Is the Cause of Which One of the Following

question 13

Multiple Choice

Failure of self-tolerance is the cause of which one of the following types of diseases?

• A)Allograft rejection
• B)Autoimmunity
• C)Atopy
• D)Anergy
• E)Acne

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Definitions:

DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid, the molecule that carries genetic information in living organisms and some viruses.

Linnaeus's Classificatory System

A system developed by Carl Linnaeus for categorizing and naming organisms using a hierarchical structure of kingdoms, classes, orders, families, genera, and species.

Founder Effects

A particular form of genetic drift deriving from a small founding population not possessing all the alleles present in the original population.

Genetic Drift

A mechanism of evolution involving random changes in the frequency of alleles within a population over time.