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Match the term with its description.

Premises:
MHC restriction
heterozygote advantage
cross-presentation
balancing selection
interallelic conversion
Responses:
evolutionary maintenance of divergent MHC molecule phenotypes
mechanism enabling extracellular antigens to bind to MHC class I molecules
recognition of peptide antigen by a given T-cell receptor when bound to a particular MHC allotype
mechanism used to increase polymorphisms of HLA class I and class II alleles involving homologous recombination between different alleles of the same gene
presentation of a wider range of peptides when MHC isotypes inherited from each parent are different

Correct Answer:

MHC restriction
heterozygote advantage
cross-presentation
balancing selection
interallelic conversion
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