The natural services that support life and human economies at no monetary cost, such as pollination
and the purification of air and water
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Epinephrine is a hormone released from the adrenal gland of the body, most often in a stressful situation. it is known as the "fight-or-flight" hormone. one way that it causes a response in the body is to activate receptors on muscle cells. where are these cellular receptors located? a. on the cell membrane b. in the nucleus c. on the cell wall d. around the mitochondria

Which of the following is not a food produced in rainforests? a) coffee b) cocoa c) avocados d) wheat

The kidney filters potentially toxic substances in the blood, and thus “clears” the blood of those substances. this clearance function is dependent upon and proportional to the diffusion gradient of the substance across filtering capillaries, i.e. if the concentration of the substance is doubled, twice as much will be cleared from each ml of blood that is filtered. suppose that the body produces a constant amount of a substance x per unit of time. the kidneys eliminate substance x at a rate directly proportional to the concentration of the substance and the volume of blood cleared each minute (c): elimination = c × [x], where [x] is the steady-state concentration of substance x. imagine an individual with an initial concentration of x equal to [x]0 who develops kidney disease. her baseline clearance c0 drops to one half of the original (½c0). what is the new steady state concentration of x? (for simplicity, assume that substance x is 100% filtered by the kidney).