Fluid waves within the cochlea cause the movement of the:

A. tympanic membrane.
B. basilar membrane.
C. tectorial membrane.
D. basilar membrane and tectorial
membrane.


B

Biology & Microbiology

You might also like to view...

Endospores form

a. when the environmental conditions are favorable. b. during binary fission. c. as a means of genetic recombination. d. in response to adverse conditions. e. to produce two offspring from every one parental cell.

Biology & Microbiology

On Earth, solar energy is most intense at

A. the South Pole. B. the North Pole. C. 60° North latitude. D. the equator. E. 60° South latitude.

Biology & Microbiology

Experimenters simulating early Earth conditions found that if heated protein chains were allowed to

cool in water, they would a. form nitrogen, which would escape as a gas. b. form proteinoids. c. form small, proteinlike molecules. d. clot and form a complex latticework frame for chemical reactions. e. break down into the original amino acids that the protein chain was made from.

Biology & Microbiology

A genetics-based test which would help physicians determine whether a given a cancer will recur, or what types of chemotherapy or radiation therapy treatments would be most successful would be

A) CRISPR-Cas9. B) DNA microarray. C) recombinant DNA techniques. D) real-time PCR. E) genome mapping.

Biology & Microbiology