Your Niece Is a Very Intelligent Person and Is Excelling

question 31

Multiple Choice

Your niece is a very intelligent person and is excelling in high school.In fact,it seems that she continues to get more intelligent,and she is especially excelling at biology,which she became interested in during middle school.What is happening to your niece,neurologically speaking?

• A)overproduction
• B)synaptic pruning
• C)myelination
• D)exuberance

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