Biology
11th Edition
ISBN: 9781259188138
Author: Peter H Raven, George B Johnson Professor, Kenneth A. Mason Dr. Ph.D., Jonathan Losos Dr., Susan Singer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 39, Problem 8U
The wound response products that bind to digestive enzymes in herbivores are
a. proteinase inhibitors.
b. proteinase promoters.
c. lipase inhibitors.
d. lipase promoters.
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