The hormone oxytocin stimulates contraction of:

A. the smooth muscles in the walls of blood
vessels
B. the muscles of the stomach wall
C. uterine muscles
D. skeletal muscles


C

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In Darwin's time, natural selection was thought to be primarily negative. However, we have since learned that positive selection is a powerful force, and it

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