a simple goiter occurs where there is insufficient ingestion of

What will be an ideal response?


iodine

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A) stimulating B) facilitating C) inhibiting D) controlling E) All of the answers are correct.

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In the brain the fluid that filters out of capillaries is highly regulated. You would expect to see ________ feeding the brain

A) continuous capillaries, with no intercellular clefts B) sinusoid capillaries, with incomplete basement membrane C) fenestrated capillaries, with thin diaphragms made of extracellular glycoproteins D) metarterioles leading directly to thoroughfare cannels

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The cells in this layer of epidermis are dead, and their flat, scale-like remnants are filled with keratin

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