When you are ill and have a fever, your body’s internal thermostat has reset your internal set point as a protective mechanism. Which part of the body regulates this protective mechanism?

a. heart
b. muscle tissue
c. hypothalamus
d. vascular tissue


c. hypothalamus

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A white splashed (Bl/Bl) Andalausian chicken and a black (bl/bl) Andalusian chicken are crossed. The heterozygotes produced show an intermediate phenotype (blue). What inheritance pattern would this be indicative of?

a. Incomplete dominance. b. Codominance. c. Multiple alleles. d. Dominance.

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Bacteria and Archaea are the two domains whose members are:

a) decomposers. b) primary consumers. c) eukaryotic. d) prokaryotic. e) multicellular.

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Intermediates from the Krebs cycle can be converted to amino acids by the process of

A. beta oxidation. B. gluconeogenesis. C. amination. D. deamination. E. phosphorylation.

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