clonal selection

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Noun

clonal selection (plural clonal selections)

  1. (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.]
  • clonal expansion

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