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PLEASE PROVIDE YOUR RATIONALE FOR EACH ANSWER.

Question II. A biochemist determines the amino acid sequence of the entire light chain from a purified immunoglobulin produced by a patient whose genome was completely sequenced. From this sequence this scientist is able to establish [complete the sentence and assess each subsequent statement (11-19) as either factually correct (= “true”) or incorrect (= “false”)]:

11. the class of immunoglobulin.
12. the light chain isotype.
13. whether the B cell that produced this antibody received T-cell help.
14. the specific variable gene fragment used to produce this chain.
15. the antigen specificity of the immunoglobulin.
16. the number of VDJ rearrangements needed to produce this light chain.
17. the most frequent amino acid present in this light chain.
18. the most frequent amino acid most likely to be present in the associated heavy chain.
19. which antigens cannot react with this immunoglobulin.

PLEASE PROVIDE YOUR RATIONALE FOR EACH ANSWER.

PLEASE ACTUALLY ANSWER TRUE OR FALSE FOR EACH QUESTION AS WELL

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Casey Durgan
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