Multiple Choice
A new hamster mutant has a daily rhythm (in the absence of light cues) with a period of 8 hours. If you transplant the fetal SCN from this animal into the brain of an adult hamster with the tau mutation (and its own SCN lesioned) , you would expect the period of this adult's rhythm to be
A) 8 hours.
B) just under 24 hours.
C) just over 24 hours.
D) 30 hours.
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