How Is the Moro Reflex Different from an Infant's Shivering

question 94

Multiple Choice

How is the Moro reflex different from an infant's shivering, yawning, and sneezing reflexes?

• A) It helps an infant ingest food.
• B) It helps an infant find food.
• C) It is part of an infant's survival reflexes.
• D) It is useful only to an infant, not to an adult.

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Definitions:

Increasing

Becoming larger or greater in size, number, value, or amount.

pKa

A quantitative measure that reflects the acid strength of a substance; the lower the pKa value, the stronger the acid.

Methanol

A light, volatile, colorless liquid with a distinctive alcoholic odor, used as an antifreeze, solvent, fuel, and as a denaturant for ethanol.

Ka

An abbreviation for acid dissociation constant, a quantitative measure of the strength of an acid in solution, representing the equilibrium constant of its dissociation.