What are the advantages and disadvantages to an organism of sensory receptor adaptation?

What will be an ideal response?


Advantages: Allows a greater range of sensitivity to ambient conditions; removes "noise" from the environment. Disadvantages: Is a short-term response, and produces a time lapse in adjusting for a set of conditions.

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_________ is a cell division that results in the body's growth and repair

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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The part of the diencephalon directly connected to the pituitary gland is the

A) hypothalamus. B) epithalamus. C) subthalamus. D) thalamus.

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The gonads, or primary sex organs, produce sex cells, also known as ________

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When tissue growth occurs by enlarging the existing cells, the process is called ________.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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