Your class is watching a video of a split-brain operation. You see the surgeon take a scalpel and sever a structure to disconnect the two hemispheres. Your friend asks you what the structure was that was being cut and you say the:

A. cerebellum
B. hypothalamus
C. corpus callosum
D. pituitary gland


Answer: C

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