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at the disk. e. If the stimuli are submaximal, contraction is 

 often only partly accomplished. 



9 The amount of food in the body of the Stentor at any given 

 moment is not an accurate register of the degree of satiety; the 

 latter depends upon what recent stimuli have been received, as 

 well as on the amount of food in the body. 



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