Nutrient Deficiency Is Likely to Produce

question 118

Multiple Choice

Nutrient deficiency is likely to produce:

• A)A preference for the taste of a food associated with the deficiency
• B)Learned avoidance of tastes associated with the deficient nutrient
• C)Decreased food sampling
• D)Taste-specific satiety

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Definitions:

Type AB Mother

Refers to a mother with AB blood type, indicating the presence of both A and B antigens on the surface of her red blood cells.

Testcross

A genetic cross between a homozygous recessive individual and an organism of unknown genotype, to determine the unknown organism’s genotype based on the offspring’s phenotypes.

Homozygous Recessive

Referring to an individual carrying two copies of a recessive allele for a particular trait, which will be expressed in the organism's phenotype.

Dominant Trait

A genetic trait that is expressed in an organism even when only one copy of the gene responsible for the trait is present.