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This question asks, after a skin injury, the body initiates a wound healing response.
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The first step of this response is the formation of a blood clot to stop bleeding, which is the following would be the next response.
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Increased production of melanin by melanocytes.
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Increased production of connective tissue.
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An increase in pisinian corpuscules around the wound, or an increased activity in the stratum lucidum.
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Well, the correct answer is not going to be choice a.
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It is not going to be choice c and is not going to be choice d.
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That is because the correct answer is an increased production of connective tissue.
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Because if we have a wound where there's basically going to be a gap in these layers of our skin, the epidermis, the dermis, the hypodermis, if we are going to sever our skin, then we form this gap...