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What does the term `memory' of the Immune system mean?

Memory of the immune system means the body remembers the antigen, recognise it from previous encounter and initiate the immune response against it.

During this response the body produces B & T memory cells which are clones of the B and T lymphocyte cells already present in the body.


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