A Wild Duck Needs a Steady Supply of Energy to Fly

question 59

Multiple Choice

A wild duck needs a steady supply of energy to fly for hours and therefore has dark breast meat.Domesticated chickens rarely fly and therefore require less energy and have white breast meat.You expect to find _____ in the breast muscles of wild ducks than domesticated chickens.

• A)fewer mitochondria
• B)more cytoplasm
• C)less cytoplasm
• D)more Golgi apparatuses
• E)more mitochondria

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Definitions:

Three-game Average

A statistical calculation used to determine a player's average performance over three games, often applied in sports to assess recent performance.

Unusually Low

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Higher

At an elevated level in terms of quality, amount, or degree compared to something else.

Illusory Correlation

The false perception of a relationship between two variables that are either weakly correlated or not correlated at all.