AntiGenX is a new pharmaceutical company working on developing therapeutic antib

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AntiGenX is a new pharmaceutical company working on developing therapeutic antibodies. However, their products so far have had varying success. Listed below are the first five drugs AntiGenX has been working on creating. Answer the questions about the results obtained with each drug.

Cathelicin (“Cat”) is a platypus peptide that creates pleasant dreams and has 97% homology to mouse cathelicidin. When researchers inject Cat into mice they are unable to find any anti-Cat antibodies. Why? (1 point)

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Since the mice recognises it as self and does not elicit a response to produce antibodies

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