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What type of thinking is required?
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Given what you now know, what information is most likely to produce the correct answer?
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process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a
more desirable result?
True / False Questions
72. True or False: A single type of receptor is responsible for detecting all tactile pressure in
humans.
Multiple Choice Questions
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73. What is the molecular basis of touch sensation?
Check All That Apply Questions
74. Which of the following are tactile receptors? (Check all that
apply.)
True / False Questions
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75. True or False: There is only a single type of pain receptor.
Multiple Choice Questions
76. Pain receptors are activated by tissue damage, but pain perception requires intact,
functional neurons. How does this work?
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process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a
more desirable result?
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77. Why do we perceive chili peppers as “hot” and peppermint as “cold”?
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78. What is the most likely hypothesis for the presence of TRP channel agonists in plants?
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79. You decide to perform an experiment to test this why plants possess TRP channel
agonists. You first set up batches of plants in the field WITH or WITHOUT applied capsaicin
or menthol. What parameter do you then measure?
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more desirable result?
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80. In “The Disembodied Lady”, neurologist Oliver Sacks tells the story of a patient who
suffered a catastrophic loss of sensory function. She said, “I feel my body is blind and deaf to
itself… It has no sense of itself.” The patient’s nerve damage was strikingly specific. What
single type of neuron most likely suffered damage?
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81. Nociceptors can respond to nearby tissue damage by sensing cytosolic factors released by
damaged cells. Such “algogenic agents” can cause pain sensation even in the absence of tissue
damage. What might be a practical use for such an agent?
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82. The discovery that ATP is a pain-signaling factor immediately suggested what possible
therapeutic approach to alleviate chronic pain?
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83. After years of listening to loud music on headphones, the cilia on Bob’s hair cells are
damaged. What is the result?
84. If the cilia on Bob’s inner ear hair cells are damaged, what can be done to improve Bob’s
hearing, other than a hearing aid?
Ranking Questions
85. Put the steps in the correct order for a birder hearing the call of a whip-poor-will.
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Check All That Apply Questions
86. How is the lateral line of a fish similar to the ears of a human? (Check all that apply.)