Question

Ten people are sitting in a row. Their objective is to whisper a secret from one person to the next all the way down the row. The first person whispers the secret to the second person who passes the secret to the third person and so on. After whispering to the third person, the second person in the row notices the ninth person has fallen asleep in their chair, so she gets up, goes down the row and shakes person nine awake. This example is similar to ________.A) allosteric control
B) positive cooperativity
C) feed-forward activation
D) negative modulation

Answer 1

Answer:

Option C - feed-forward activation.

Explanation:

Feed forward, or feedforward, is a term describing an element or pathway within a control system that passes a controlling signal from a source in its external environment to a load elsewhere in its external environment.

A goes to B which goes to C....

In this case, there were those 10 people sitting in a row. The signal was meant from this enviroment only. The second person wakes up the ninth to save the system (the chain of the signal) from failling and not reaching the end.