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Monoclonal antibodies differ from polyclonal antibodies in their property of reacting with _____.

  1. specific epitope

  2. specific antigen

  3. specific clones of cells

  4. specific paratope

  5. all of the above
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Explanation

Specific epitope : monoclonal antibody has a single binding site for specific portion of a macromolecular antigen called epitope, whereas polyclonal antibodies have heterogeneous collection of binding sites for different epitope.

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