Damage to the Hippocampus Results in Disordered Regulation of Hunger

question 20

True/False

Damage to the hippocampus results in disordered regulation of hunger and thirst.

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Definitions:

Racemic Mixtures

A mixture containing equal amounts of two enantiomers of a compound, making it optically inactive due to the canceling effect of the two forms' rotation of plane-polarized light.

Achiral

A term describing an object or molecule that is superposable on its mirror image; not chiral.

L-Aspartic Acid

A naturally occurring amino acid found in proteins and important for the biosynthesis of other amino acids and in the citric acid cycle.

Peptide Bonds

The chemical bonds formed between the carboxyl group of one amino acid and the amino group of another, linking them together in a protein or peptide chain.