Natural Selection Should Favor the Highest Proportion of Juxtamedullary Nephrons

question 38

Multiple Choice

Natural selection should favor the highest proportion of juxtamedullary nephrons in which of the following species?

• A) a river otter
• B) a mouse species living in a tropical rain forest
• C) a mouse species living in a temperate broadleaf forest
• D) a mouse species living in a desert

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Definitions:

Autobiographical Knowledge

Refers to a person's memory of personal experiences and events, including the times, places, emotions, and other contextual who, what, when, where, and why details of one's life.

Preoperational Thought

A stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development, where children aged 2-7 years exhibit symbolic thinking but lack the ability for logical operations.

Concrete Operational

A stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development during which children gain the ability to think logically about concrete events.

Decentered

In developmental psychology, a term referring to the ability to take multiple aspects of a situation into account, seeing things from more than one perspective.