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#Question id: 21250

A 56-year-old female was diagnosed with a tumor near the base of the skull, impinging on her optic tract. Which of the following statements about the central visual pathway is correct?

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal
  1. The fibers from each temporal hemiretina decussate in the optic chiasm, so that the fibers in the optic tracts are those from the temporal half of one retina and the nasal half of the other
  2. In the geniculate body, the fibers from the nasal half of one retina and the temporal half of the other synapse on the cells whose axons form the geniculocalcarine tract.
  3. Layers 2 and 3 of the visual cortex contain clusters of cells called globs that contain a high concentration of cytochrome oxidase.
  4. Complex cells have a preferred orientation of a linear stimulus and, compared to simple cells, are more dependent on the location of the stimulus within the visual field.
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#Question id: 12573

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Which of the following conditions is the most likely indicator of a population in an extinction vortex? 
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#Question id: 8689

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms

Which of the following statements best describes the rationale for applying the principle of maximum parsimony in constructing phylogenetic trees?
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#Question id: 5030

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

There is evidence that ray-finned fishes originally evolved
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#Question id: 4730

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Cross is made between a pure breeding plant having red coloured male flowers with a pure breeding plant having white colored female flowers. All of these offspring are white colored flower. Upon selfing of these F1 red flower plant produced both red and white flower. Which of the following is conclusion of these cross?
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#Question id: 17812

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

The body's main stress hormone is ______.