During the Winter Months at a Farm in a Warm

question 170

Multiple Choice

During the winter months at a farm in a warm climate, wild geese commonly feed on the peanuts, corn kernels, and grains that are scattered across the fields.During one unusually wet hunting season, some game hunters are alarmed to find that the livers of some of the harvested geese are abnormally lumpy.A veterinarian diagnoses the lumps as tumors, most likely the consequence of _______ poisoning through their ingestion of moldy peanuts.

• A) ionizing radiation
• B) aflatoxin
• C) benzopyrene
• D) free radical
• E) 5-methylcytosine

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