Question 95

(Multiple Choice)

Use the following information to answer the next few questions.
In a famous study,women were asked to smell and rate the attractiveness of axillary odours on t-shirts worn by different men.Results showed that ovulating women preferred the odour of the t-shirts worn by MHC (major histocompatibility complex)dissimilar men.This indicates that dissimilarity in MHC may play a role in mate selection.
-The advantage conferred on offspring resulting from the mating of two individuals with differing MHC genotypes is that


A)the innate immunity would be greater against a larger number of pathogens.
B)the secondary immune response would occur more rapidly.
C)the immune response would be greater against a larger number of pathogens.
D)the rate of phagocytosis during opsonization would be increased.
E)the secondary immune response would occur with greater intensity.

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