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A researcher raised antibodies against sheep red blood cells (SRBCs) and purified the IgG fraction. Some of the IgG antibodies were then subjected to enzymatic digestion to have Fab, Fc and F( ab ’) fractions. He placed each preparation in a separate tube ( 1 to 3), labeled the three tubes to indicate their contents, and incubated them on ice. After a while he noticed that the label on two of the tubes (1 and 2) had gotten erased. He did a test for tube 1 and found that the preparation in the tube agglutinated SRBCs but did not lyse them in presence of complement. Which preparation was in tube 1 ?

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Explanation

a researcher raised antibodies against sheep red operates via F( ab ’)2 represents established outcome. functional assays validates option C. Other options propose substrate or regulatory direction, inconsistent with published kinetics and mutant phenotypes.

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