A newly hatched cuckoo bird is blind, but contact with an object beside it stimulates it to push the object out of the nest. What term best describes this behavior?

a. learned
b. time sensitive learning
c. imprinting
d. instinct
e. social landscape learning


d

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Before clotting factors from recombinant DNA became available, more than half of hemophiliacs in the U.S. acquired

HIV from injection of clotting factors obtained from donated blood. a. True b. False

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In which of the following structures does translation occur?

A. Vesicles B. Golgi apparatus C. Endoplasmic reticulum D. Ribosomes

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A baseball player leaping for a baseball and a cricket jumping away from a frog are both using ________. I) sensory receptors II) the central nervous system III) a muscle system

A) I only B) II only C) III only D) I, II, and III

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