The Principle That Best Describes an Organizational Effect of Androgens

question 39

Multiple Choice

The principle that best describes an organizational effect of androgens during prenatal development that enables an animal to engage in male sexual behavior as an adult is

• A) feminization.
• B) emasculinization.
• C) behavioral masculinization.
• D) aromatization.
• E) behavioral defeminization.

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Definitions:

Glomerular Filtration

Protein-free plasma forced out of glomerular capillaries by blood pressure enters Bowman’s capsule.

Plasma

Fluid portion of blood.

Blood

Circulatory fluid of a closed circulatory system. Of vertebrates, fluid connective tissue consisting of plasma and cellular components (red cells, white cells, platelets) that form in bones.

Tubular Secretion

A process in the kidneys where substances are actively transported from blood into the urine through the tubules.