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Author: Cecie Starr, Beverly McMillan
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 14, Problem 6SQ
Detecting substances present in the body fluids that bathe them is the function of ___________.
- a. thermoreceptors
- b. photoreceptors
- c. mechanoreceptors
- d. chemoreceptors
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