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frankwu

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Why do children with PKU develop intellectual disabilities?
 
  a. Unmetabolized amino acids accumulate and affect the brain.
 b. Essential axons lack myelin sheaths.
 c. Dendrites and synapses fail to form in associative areas of the cortex.
  d. Their immune systems do not fight off brain infections.

Question 2

In studies that paired a tone with an air puff to the cornea of rabbits, learning was found to depend on one nucleus of the ____.
 
  a. cerebellum
 b. hypothalamus
  c. thalamus
 d. hippocampus


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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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Reply #2 on: Jun 22, 2018
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Reply #3 on: Jun 22, 2018
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