During normal breathing, the brain is stimulated to breath with increasing acidity as a result of CO2 concentration from basic metabolic processes. The brain is quite selfish and only really wants to maintain it's pH which should be at a range of 7.3-7.45, and will not tolerate any decrease.
In patients who have a chronic respiratory disorder with things like COPD. The brain has become accustomed to excessive acidic content, and is now stimulated by the Hypoxic drive or by low oxygen content.
Sex cells will always contain half of the number of chromosomes needed for a being. So if a fishes sperm cell contains 12 chromosomes and the ovum also contains 12 chromosomes then when fused together they will have 24 chromosomes in total.
In order for the process of the fish to even be made the sperm and ovum must be fused together. Therefore the number of chromosomes that would be found in the cells forming the gills is 24 chromosomes.
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Acquired immunity is immunity you develop over your lifetime. It can come from: a vaccine. exposure to an infection or disease. another person's antibodies (infection-fighting immune cells
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D, but if feel sorry my second guess will be B
Varieties of plants in which self-fertilization produces offspring that are identical to the parents are referred to as true-breeding. In this process the parents will pass down specific phenotypic trait of their offspring. True bred organisms will have pure genotype (genetic make up of an organism) and will therefore produce certain phenotype.
