Which of the Following Comparisons of the Innate and Adaptive

Multiple Choice

Which of the following comparisons of the innate and adaptive immune systems is FALSE?

A) The innate immune system is more likely to recognize normal self,and therefore cause autoimmunity,than is the adaptive immune system.
B) Receptors used for recognition in innate immunity are encoded in the germline,whereas those of the adaptive immune system are encoded by genes generated via somatic recombination of germline receptor gene loci.
C) The innate and adaptive immune systems share some of the same effector mechanisms.
D) Both the innate and adaptive immune systems can recognize nonmicrobial substances.
E) The innate immune system less long lived memory than the adaptive immune system does.