Monarch butterflies are protected from birds and other predators but the cardiac glycosides they incorporate into their tissues are from eating milkweed when they were in their caterpillar stage of development. The wings of a different species of butterfly, the Viceroy, look nearly identical to the Monarch so predators that have learned not to eat the bad-tasting Monarch avoid Viceroys as well. This example best describes

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#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

A baby is born with a penis, a scrotum with no testes, no vagina, and XX chromosomes. This condition is referred to as hermaphroditism. Which of the following could cause this abnormality?

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#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

A young woman is given daily injections of a substance beginning on the 16th day of her normal menstrual cycle and continuing for 3 weeks. As long as the injections continue, she does not menstruate. The injected substance could be which of the following?

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#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Which of the following could inhibit the initiating labor?

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#Question id: 11684

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Exposure to UV light directly facilitates which of the following?

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#Question id: 11685

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

After birth, the pressure in the pulmonary artery decreases greatly. What is the cause of this?

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#Question id: 11686

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

If a radioimmunoassay is properly conducted and the amount of radioactive hormone bound to antibody is low, this would indicate which of the following?