When a person develops antibodies that attack the thyroid gland, causing the thyroid to produce too many thyroid hormones, that person has ________.
A. Addison's disease
B. myxedema
C. Graves' disease
D. dwarfism
E. gigantism
Answer: C
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The tendency for genes that are close together on the same chromosome to be inherited as a unit is called
a. codonage b. linkage c. morphing d. replicating
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false