How does humidity affect the body's temperature-regulating mechanisms?
a. high humidity reduces evaporative cooling
b. the need for fluid replacement decreases as humidity increases
c. low humidity improves convective cooling
d. sweating increases as humidity decreases
Answer: a. high humidity reduces evaporative cooling
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A. Transcription and translation both occur in the cytoplasm. B. Prokaryotic organisms do not carry out transcription or translation, only eukaryotic cells do. C. Transcription occurs in the nucleus, and translation occurs in the cytoplasm. D. Transcription and translation both occur in the nucleus.
Cytoplasmic organelles that convert energy from food molecules in ATP and are transmitted from mothers to all their children through the cytoplasm of the egg are called ____________________
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a. began to eat roots, a preferred food of voles b. attempted to locate and mate with female voles c. preferred female mice they had already mated with to new females d. ceased normal social behaviors such as grooming and co-sleeping e. became aggressive and territorial
Animals that lack a vertebral column are known as
A. supinates. B. aspinates. C. retrogrades. D. invertebrates. E. inarticulates.