A Fight-Or-Flight Response Is Helpful to Humans Because It

question 27

Multiple Choice

A fight-or-flight response is helpful to humans because it

• A) helps a person physically prepare to deal with danger.
• B) causes a person to seek out social support.
• C) helps a person determine whether stimuli are threatening or irrelevant.
• D) supports a person in dealing with chronic stress.

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Definitions:

Regulation Development

The process through which biological systems grow and change, governed by genetic and environmental factors.

Transcription

The first step in gene expression, where a particular segment of DNA is copied into RNA by the enzyme RNA polymerase.

Posttranscription

Processes that occur to eukaryotic mRNA after it has been transcribed from DNA but before it is translated into protein, such as splicing, 5' capping, and polyadenylation.

Therapeutic Cloning

A technique for creating a clonal embryo using somatic cell nuclear transfer, primarily for the purpose of deriving stem cells to treat disease.