AP Biology· difficulty 3/5
The middle stage of cell signaling — typically a phosphorylation cascade or second messenger relay — is
Reception
Replication
Transduction
Response
Explanation
Reception (ligand-receptor binding) → transduction (relay/amplify via cascades) → response (gene expression change, enzyme activation, etc.).
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