Sensory Receptors That Detect Changes in Pressure Are Called

question 9

Multiple Choice

Sensory receptors that detect changes in pressure are called

• A) thermoreceptors.
• B) mechanoreceptors.
• C) chemoreceptors.
• D) photoreceptors.
• E) osmoreceptors.

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Standard Deviation

A statistical measure that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values.