What is the function of skin dermal folds and deep skin creases?

What will be an ideal response?


to accommodate for joint movement

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Sensory impulses from all of the senses except ________ converge on the thalamus and synapse in at least one of its nuclei.

A. vision B. taste C. touch D. olfaction E. hearing

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Steven has the dominant tongue rolling phenotype but he does not know his genotype. His wife has the recessive non-tongue rolling trait. If their son can roll his tongue this means ________

A) Steven has a homozygous recessive genotype B) Steven has a heterozygous genotype C) Steven has a homozygous dominant genotype D) that it is impossible to tell Steven's genotype from this information alone

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The kinocilia and stereocilia of the hair cells in the semicircular ducts are embedded in a gelatinous structure called (the)

A) cupula. B) organ of Corti. C) ampulla. D) crista. E) None of the answers are correct.

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Failure of the palatine processes of the maxilla to fuse properly during development results in a

A. cleft chin. B. deviated septum. C. cleft lip. D. cleft palate. E. clogged sinus.

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