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| Innate | Adaptive |
| Specificity inherited in genome | Encoded in multiple gene segments |
| Expressed by all cells of a type | Requires somatic gene diversification |
| Ligation triggers immediate response | Clonal cellular distribution |
| Recognizes broad class of pathogen | Can discriminate between very similar structures |
| Binds range of structures of a given type |
