A Starving Rat Will Lose All Interest in Food If

question 92

Multiple Choice

A starving rat will lose all interest in food if a specific neural center within the ________ is destroyed.

• A) thalamus
• B) adrenal gland
• C) arcuate nucleus
• D) pancreas

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