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The Wheeler Island has been renamed as

Soil that forms on unconsolidated deposits is called

In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which is opposite in meaning of the given word.

Defile

Select the antonym of
to flay

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

Tongue-­in-­cheek

Which of the following rivers does NOT originate from Amarkantak Plateau or nearby places?

In the following question, four words are given out of which one word is correctly spelt. Select the correctly spelt word.

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The antigen-antibody immunological reaction is used to be regarded as typical of immunological responses. Antibodies are proteins synthesized by specialized cells called plasma cells, which are formed by lymphocytes (cells from the lymph system) when an antigen, a substance foreign to an organism's body, comes in contact with lymphocytes. Two important manifestations of antigen-antibody immunity are lysis, the rapid physical rupture of antigenic cells and the liberation of their contents into the surrounding medium, and phagocytosis, a process in which antigenic particles are engulfed by and very often digested by macrophages and polymorphs. The process of lysis is executed by a complex and unstable blood constituent known as complement, which will not work unless it is activated by a specific antibody; the process of phagocytosis is greatly facilitated when the particles to be engulfed are coated by a specific antibody directed against them.

What happens when an antigen comes in contact with lymphocytes?