2 On a hot day, dogs sweat through their paw pads
and pant, which helps keep them cool. Both the
sweating and panting are
(1) due to a loss of oxygen
(2) a failure of cell communication
(3) due to a lack of adaptation to the environment
(4) a response to a stimulus

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Answer:

a response to a stimulus

The sweating that helps them cool is a response to the high temperature of the surroundings. So the correct answer is D.

Why does sweating happen?

On a hot day, the internal temperature of our body also starts to rise. When this happens, the hypothalamus signals the sweat glands located in all the regions of the skin to produce sweat.

The sweat is then secreted on the surface of our skin. This is mainly composed of water and salt. The high temperature of the surroundings then causes the evaporation of the sweat.

The evaporation of sweat from the surface of the skin leaves the surface of the skin, from where it was evaporated, cooler.  Thus sweating is a mechanism to maintain the normal temperature of the body.

The sweat is inherently odourless and the odour is produced by the bacteria on our skin that feed on the sweat.

Hence, on a hot day, the sweating and panting of the dog through their paw pads, which keeps them cool, is a response to a stimulus.

Therefore the correct answer is D

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