Your friend tells you that all dietary fat is bad for your health. Is this correct?

What will be an ideal response?


Although excess fat can be harmful, especially to the circulatory system, fat does serve important functions in the body, including long-term energy storage, insulation, and protection from blows.

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What is the second step of signal transduction?

a. reception b. transduction c. differentiation d. division e. response

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In what order did these organisms diverge from the lineage of the common ancestral primate?

A. H. neandertalensis, H. ergaster, H. habilis, gorillas and chimpanzees, hominins B. monkeys, gibbons, prosimians, orangutans, H. habilis, H. ergaster, humans C. gibbons, lemurs, tarsiers, H. habilis, monkeys, H. neandertalensis, hominins D. prosimians, monkeys, gibbons, orangutans, gorillas and chimpanzees, hominins

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Why are negative feedback loops more effective at maintaining homeostasis than positive feedback loops?

What will be an ideal response?

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The protein measured in the cells was likely synthesized by

A) mitochondria. B) the nucleolus. C) the smooth endoplasmic reticulum. D) ribosomes.

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