Choose the One Most Appropriate Answer for Each

question 6

Multiple Choice

Choose the one most appropriate answer for each.
-Trachea

• A)Flexible windpipe reinforced with cartilage
• B)Detect carbonic acid in artery walls and signal the brain to stimulate faster and deeper breathing
• C)Oxygen-rich form of a respiratory protein
• D)Contains a pair of vocal cords
• E)Stimulate faster breathing in dangerous situations
• F)Part of the brainstem; controls breathing
• G)Throat passage behind the mouth
• H)One inhalation and one exhalation
• I)Connect trachea to lungs
• J)Flaplike structure that points upward allowing air to enter trachea, but blocks the larynx during swallowing
• K)Raise and lower the ribcage
• L)Microscopically small pockets lined with moist epithelium that function in gas exchange

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Definitions:

Inherited Vulnerability

A predisposition to certain psychological or physical conditions passed down from parents to their offspring through genes.

Evolution of Behaviour

The study of how and why animal and human behaviors change over generations through the principles of natural selection and genetics.

Genetic Drift

A mechanism of evolution caused by random changes in the frequency of alleles within a population over time.

Natural Selection

The evolutionary process where organisms with traits that enhance survival and reproduction are more likely to pass on their genes to the next generation.