Nicotine Functions as an Agonist When It

question 231

Multiple Choice

Nicotine functions as an agonist when it

• A) stimulates some of the acetylcholine synapses.
• B) inhibits some of the acetylcholine synapses.
• C) occupies the acetylcholine receptor sites, thus blocking the action of the neurotransmitter.
• D) prevents the release of acetylcholine into the synapse, thus blocking the action of the neurotransmitter.

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Definitions:

Poisson Distribution

A probability distribution that models the number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space, given the events occur with a known constant rate and independently of the time since the last event.

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Probability

The quantification of how likely an event is to occur, expressed as a number ranging between 0 and 1.

Bivariate Distributions

The probability distribution of two random variables, showing the relationship between them.