A Researcher Is Interested in Determining Whether Mice Can Remember

question 67

Multiple Choice

A researcher is interested in determining whether mice can remember the location of a piece of cheese in a maze.Which of the following would be the best experiment to perform to test the hypothesis that the limbic system is involved?

• A)Place a healthy mouse and a mouse with a disrupted hippocampus in a maze,and allow them to find the cheese in the center of the maze.Repeat the next day,and measure the time it takes for the mice to find the cheese.
• B)Place a healthy mouse and a mouse with a disrupted cerebellum in a maze,and allow them to find the cheese in the center of the maze.Measure how long it took each mouse to find the cheese.
• C)Perform an fMRI on a healthy mouse after allowing it to find the cheese in the center of the maze.
• D)Place a mouse with a disrupted amygdala in the maze,and allow it to find the cheese at the center of the maze.Repeat the next day,but this time put a bowl of water in the center of the maze,and measure how long it takes the mouse to find the water.

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Nutrients

Essential substances that organisms need to consume for energy, growth, and maintaining life processes.

Alimentary Canal

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