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ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY 4TH EDITION
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Chapter 1: Animals and Environments: Function on the Ecological Stage
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1. Which statement about the discipline of physiology is false?
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10. What is the adaptive significance of light emission in the firefly?
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11. Which of the following is a similarity between an octopus and a fish?
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