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What is immunity? Explain the types of imunity.

Answer:

Animal body has the ability to resist almost all types of organisms or toxins that damage the tissues and organs.

Immunity is of two types:

(a) Innate immunity (Inborn immunity): It is inherited from parents and protect us from birth throughout life.

(b) Acquired immunity (Adaptive immunity): It is developed by our body in response to a disease caused by infection of a pathogen.