Your Friends John and Lisa Are Wondering Whether Their Newborn

question 59

Multiple Choice

Your friends John and Lisa are wondering whether their newborn son can feel pain.What can you tell them about infants' ability to feel pain?

• A)Infant nervous systems are not sufficiently developed to transmit pain.
• B)The skin of infants does not have as many pain receptors as does the skin of adults.
• C)Behaviour suggests that newborns do not experience pain.
• D)Physical development and behaviour suggests that newborns are capable of feeling pain.

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Definitions:

Keen Olfaction

The highly developed sense of smell, often found in animals, enabling them to detect and distinguish odors more acutely.

Metamorphosis

Transition from one developmental stage to another, such as from a larva to an adult. See also complete metamorphosis and incomplete metamorphosis.

Amphibia

A class of cold-blooded vertebrates that includes frogs, toads, salamanders, and newts, distinguished by their ability to live both in water and on land.

Vertebrate Classes

Categories within the subphylum Vertebrata, distinguishing animals based on key features like presence of a backbone, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish.