While Playing Soccer in Your Backyard, You Disrupt a Small

question 50

Multiple Choice

While playing soccer in your backyard, you disrupt a small fire ant mound. The fire ants emerge and bite your feet. Your feet begin to show swollen, raised areas around the bites. What is happening?

• A) Your innate internal defenses have been activated.
• B) Your adaptive defenses have been activated.
• C) Blood flow to the affected area decreases.
• D) You are experiencing passive immunity.

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Definitions:

Seminal Fluid

A fluid that is part of semen, produced by several glands in the male reproductive system, and serves to transport and nourish sperm.

Contractions

In physiology, the process of muscle fibers shortening and generating force; in linguistics, the shortening of words by omitting sounds or letters.

Refractory Period

A period immediately following stimulation during which a nerve or muscle is unresponsive to further stimulation.

Human Response Cycle

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