The Lateral Line System in Fish Transduces Sensory Information in a Manner

question 33

Multiple Choice

The lateral line system in fish transduces sensory information in a manner that, among these choices, is most similar to

• A) human vision.
• B) human olfaction.
• C) human gustation.
• D) human vestibular sense.
• E) human thermoreception.

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Definitions:

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