clonal selection
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Noun
[edit]clonal selection (plural clonal selections)
- (immunology) The process by which a specific antigen only activates its counter-specific lymphocyte, usually a B cell, so that particular cell is induced to produce many clones of itself for antibody production. [From the 1950s.]
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[edit]immunological process
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