The choice that best fits and answers the question is;
D: absorption
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The endocrine system is composed of the following:
1) hypothalamus
2) pituitary gland
3) thyroid and parathyroids
4) adrenal glands
5) pineal gland and gonads
6) pancreas
Pituitary gland is involved in gigantism. Pituitary gland produces the growth hormone. Excessive growth hormone released by the pituitary may result to gigantism.
The enlargement of the thyroid gland is called goiter. It is a symptom of hypherthyroidism, a condition wherein levels of thyroid hormones in the blood are highly excessive.
The pair of characteristics that one must use to classify a fish is the presence of jaw and skeleton type. Agnatha fishes are also called jawless fishes and they lack bony skeletons. Cartilaginous fishes are composed of cartilage skeletons. Bony fishes have bony skeleton structures.
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One of these is natural selection, which is a process that increases the frequency of advantageous gene variants, called alleles, in a population. Natural selection can result in organisms that are more likely to survive and reproduce and may eventually lead to speciation.
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