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True or false: somatic hypermutation can increase affinity without changing antigen specificity.

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The answer is false. It is because somatic hypermutation does not have the ability to increase its affinity without having to change antigen specificity because it could only increase its affinity if the anitigen specificity of it has been changed.

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