Use the Following Information to Answer the Question

question 39

Multiple Choice

Use the following information to answer the question.
For your internship at the local zoo, you have been assigned to help with the new orangutan-breeding program. Little is known about orangutan reproductive hormones, but hormone feedback cycles are often the same in closely related animals. You have been asked to use your knowledge of the interactions of human reproductive hormones to recommend injections to promote ovulation in a female orangutan when a visiting male arrives for a brief breeding visit.
Which of the following hormones would you inject a few days before the male visit if you want to induce ovulation when he arrives?

• A) estradiol
• B) progesterone
• C) luteinizing hormone
• D) follicle-stimulating hormone

---

Definitions:

Language Abilities

The capacity to use complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so, which includes both the ability to comprehend and produce spoken and written language.

Neurocognitive Disorder

A category of mental health disorders that primarily affect cognitive abilities including learning, memory, and understanding.

Intellectual Disability

A condition characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, which covers a range of everyday social and practical skills.

Aphasia

A condition characterized by the impairment of language ability, affecting production, comprehension, reading, or writing, due to brain damage.