Will your body possess energy after you die? If so, what kind?
A) Your body possesses no energy after you die because it cannot move on its own.
B) Your body possesses both potential and kinetic energy even as it lies still.
C) Your body possesses chemical potential energy, which is the potential energy found within the atoms and molecules of your tissues.
D) Your body possesses chemical potential energy, but also kinetic energy at the level of atoms and molecules, which vibrate rapidly.
Question 2
A person may feel more relaxed after smoking a cigarette, but his or her heart is actually stressed. Why?
A) Maintenance neurons are being activated by the nicotine, which directs maintenance neurotransmitters to instead activate stress neurons.
B) The relaxed feeling is more psychosomatic rather than being based upon some neurochemical response.
C) Stress neurons are over-firing to make up for nicotine's inhibition of acetylcholine.
D) The relaxed feeling arises only after the stimulated muscles rebound from a point of fatigue generated by the inhibition of acetylcholine.
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Body plan of an aquatic snail and micrograph of a radula