A student just finished a delicious breakfast of pancakes with syrup, orange juice, and Danish pastries. Because his blood sugar level has increased, the pancreas will secrete ________.

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


Answer: insulin

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A cancer stem cell can divide to give rise to

A) tumor cells, abnormal daughter cells, normal cells, and more cancer stem cells. B) more cancer stem cells only. C) healthy stem cells and normally differentiated cells. D) invasive cells and metastatic malignant cells.

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What was the average number of spots at the completion of your two experiments with killifish?

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Two species of phorid flies are being used to control

fire ants. The fly a. is a parasitoid of the fire ant. b. lays an egg in the ant’s soft internal tissues. c. produces a larva that eats the ant’s interior. d. larva uses the ant’s empty head as a metamorphosis chamber. e. fits all of these descriptions.

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