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For your internship at the local zoo,you have been assigned to help with the new orangutan-breeding program.Little is known about orangutan reproductive hormones,but hormone feedback cycles are often the same in closely related animals.You have been asked to use your knowledge of the interactions of human reproductive hormones to recommend injections to promote ovulation in a female orangutan when a visiting male arrives for a brief breeding visit.
-A pregnant woman comes into the hospital past her due date.The doctor decides it is time for the baby to be delivered.Before performing a cesarean section,the doctor wants to try to induce labor.Which of the following would she most likely inject?
A)estrogen
B)progesterone
C)luteinizing hormone (LH)
D)follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH)
E)oxytocin

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Oxytocin is often used to induce labor as it stimulates contractions of the uterus. Estrogen and progesterone are hormones involved in regulating the menstrual cycle and preparing the uterus for pregnancy, but they are not used to induce labor. LH and FSH are also involved in the menstrual cycle and are not used in labor induction.

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