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#Question id: 11132

The sensation of temperature is signaled mainly by warm and cold receptors whose sensory fibers travel in association with the sensory fibers carrying pain signals. Which of the following statements best characterizes the transmission of signals from warm receptors?

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal
  1. Warm receptors are well characterized histologically
  2. Signals from warm receptors are mainly transmitted along slow-conducting type C sensory fibers
  3. Warm receptors are located well below the surface of the skin in the subcutaneous connective tissue
  4. There are 3 to 10 times more warm receptors than cold receptors in most areas of the body
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#Question id: 427

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

The degradation of which class of biochemicals does not significantly contribute to the release of energy to cells?
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#Question id: 11200

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Action potentials are normally carried in only one direction: from the axon hillock toward the axon terminals. If you experimentally depolarize the middle of the axon to threshold, using an electronic probe, then ________.
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#Question id: 1061

#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

Specialized transduction
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#Question id: 15420

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

signal from the inducing cell is necessary for initiating new gene expression in the responding cell. Without the inducing cell, the responding cell is not capable of differentiating in that particular way, phenomena known as:
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#Question id: 3024

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

In a rapidly multiplying bacterial population, cell numbers increase