#Question id: 16121
#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal
Match the following mechanisms (Column I) with their correct example (Column II).
Column I |
Column II |
A. Heat-generating and heat-retaining mechanisms |
i. increased metabolic rate (thyroid hormones, sympathetic nervous system) |
B. Heat-dissipating mechanisms |
ii. vasodilation of blood vessels of the skin
(decreased sympathetic tone) |
|
iii. increased activity of sympathetic cholinergic
fibers to sweat glands. |
|
iv. shivering |
|
v. vasoconstriction of blood vessels of the skin (increased
sympathetic tone) |
#Question id: 11122
#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms
Phylogenetic hypotheses (such as those represented by phylogenetic trees) are strongest when
#Question id: 5691
#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology
Which of the following most accurately explains the cause for the abnormal numbers of chromosomes during human reproduction that can result in Down syndrome, Turner’s syndrome, or Klinefelter’s syndrome?
#Question id: 23199
#Unit 13. Methods in Biology
#Question id: 21126
#Unit 12. Applied Biology