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Using flow chart how the lymphatic system protect the body, include reference to the filtering of nodes and the macrophages and the b and t lymphocytes?
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Complicated: That is too complicated for the short answers here. You can find charts of this all over the internet. Do a google search.
Answered 12/3/2015
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