Em alguns casos, ao ficarmos doentes, principalmente com alguma infecção, percebemos um pequeno inchaço na região do pescoço, atrás das orelhas, próximo das axilas ... Isso é consequência de: 2 pontos
uma multiplicação exagerada e descontrolada de células nessa região.
um aumento generalizado dos vasos linfáticos que estão contaminados por micro organismos.
um aumento da deposição de linfa no pescoço causado pela infecção.
um inchaço nos gânglios linfáticos para aumentar seu poder de filtração da linfa.

Bisphenol a (often called bpa) is a chemical found in products that people use every day, from water bottles to food containers to children's toys. unfortunately, bpa leaches out of its many products and makes its way into our bodies. what are the health effects of bpa exposure? ongoing research is finding that elevated exposure to bpa can affect a wide variety of developmental and physiological processes, but one of the first studies of bpa's health effects came about because of a simple mistake in the lab. at a laboratory at case western reserve university in 1998, geneticist patricia hunt was making a routine check of her female lab mice. as she extracted and examined developing eggs from the ovaries, she began to wonder what had gone wrong. she noticed that many of the eggs showed problems with their chromosomes, and some had irregular amounts of genetic material, which can lead to miscarriages and birth defects in mammals. she learned that a lab assistant had mistakenly washed the plastic mouse cages and water bottles with a harsh soap, releasing bpa from the plastic. knowing that bpa is an endocrine disruptor, a chemical that can enter organisms and mimic hormones, hunt set out to discover whether it had adversely affected her mice.

Cold case files recently began re-investigating an old murder case. the murder took place in the park; a young man, james, was hit over the head with a brick and killed. police suspected the jealous former boyfriend of james' wife, karen. whoever killed james may have washed their hands in a near-by bird bath as detectives found blood in the bird bath. since the murder took place before dna fingerprinting was available, the suspected killer, ronnie, went free. detectives are now reviewing the blood evidence using dna fingerprinting. based on the dna fingerprints of all possible suspects, who is james' killer?

What is one reason why transpiration is important in plants? question 19 options: it produces food from the sugar in the plant cells. it enables the flow of water out of the plant. it produces carbon dioxide in the leaves of the plant.