__________ lacks the capacity to remember a pathogen or react differently to it in the future,whereas __________ utilizes memory cells to adapt to a given pathogen and ward it off more easily in the future.
A)Nonspecific resistance; cytotoxicity
B)Adaptive immunity; nonspecific resistance
C)A natural killer cell; a cytoxic T cell
D)Nonspecific resistance; adaptive immunity
E)Adaptive immunity; specific immunity

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The first part of the statement describes a characteristic of nonspecific resistance, while the second part describes adaptive immunity. Therefore, the answer is the option which contrasts these two: D) Nonspecific resistance lacks the capacity to remember a pathogen, whereas adaptive immunity utilizes memory cells to adapt to a given pathogen and ward it off more easily in the future.

__________ Lacks the Capacity to Remember a Pathogen or React