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The production of antibodies along with T-cell mediated cellular cytotoxicity, both as a means of protecting organisms from pathogens and parasites.
| Adaptive Immunity is adaptive because it literally adapts, that is, a form of selection acts on genetic diversity – as found within our own bodies! – resulting in improvements, in this case of an immune response. |
See also B cell, B lymphocyte, humoral immunity, T cell, T lymphocyte, helper T cell, cell-mediated immunity, etc.