One of the adaptive advantages of human body hair is believed to be its ability to help us detect potentially harmful insects crawling or landing on our skin. Which receptor type is most associated with this type of perception?

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Hair follicle receptors

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Explain the significance of the plateau and steep portions of the oxygen-hemoglobin dissociation curve

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A membrane that allows some substances to travel across it while restricting the passage of others is ________

A) selectively permeable B) impermeable C) hypotonic D) freely permeable

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Each upper limb is considered nine percent of the body skin surface area.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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Structure I is the



A) choroid.
B) sclera.
C) ciliary layer.
D) retina.
E) fovea.

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