recombinational germline theory
1recombinational germline theory — a theory of the origin of antibody diversity, according to which the DNA coding for a single immunoglobulin chain is assembled by a somatic recombinational event from two genes, one a unique constant region gene and the other one of several… …
2clonal selection theory — a modification of the natural selection theory (q.v.): there are in each adult several million clones of antibody producing cells, each programmed to make antibody of a single specificity and bearing cell surface receptors capable of reacting… …
3Dreyer and Bennett hypothesis — Drey·er and Ben·nett hypothesis (driґər benґət) [William J. Dreyer, American immunologist, born 1928; Joe Claude Bennett, American rheumatologist, born 1933] see recombinational germline theory, under theory …
4Dreyer and Bennett hypothesis — see recombinational germline theory, under theory …
