Use the Following to Answer Questions

question 23

Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer questions :
A castaway on a desert island puts a message in a bottle and throws it into the ocean,hoping it will wash up on some inhabited shore and bring help.
-In endocrine signaling,the ocean is analogous to

• A) nerve cells.
• B) the blood.
• C) a carrier protein.
• D) a hormone.
• E) a receptor.

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