In the coagulation (clotting) cascade, the intrinsic and the extrinsic pathways converge at which factor?
a. XII
b. VII
c. X
d. V
Ans: c. X
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a. a phenomenon c. a concept b. a conceptual model d. a conceptual frame-work
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