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Human Health and Disease — BIOLOGY STD 12 Science — Question

Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 ScienceBIOLOGYHuman Health and Disease2 Marks
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What is active immunity?
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Answer

Active immunity:
→It is the immunity in which antibodies are produced in a host body when the host is exposed to antigens (e.g. living or dead microbes or other proteins). It is a slow process. It is produced in two ways:
(a) Natural Active Immunity :
→It is developed during natural infection by microbes.
(b) Artificial Active Immunity :
→It is developed by injecting the microbes deliberately during immunization.

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