Physiological hyperplasia and hypertrophy are seen simultaneously in -: (A) Breast at puberty, (B) Skeletal muscle in athletes, (C) Uterus in pregnancy, (D) Thyroid gland during pregnancy
Answer is C. Ans-C"The massive physiological growth of the uterus during pregnancy is a good example of a hormone-induced increase in the size of an organ that results from both hypertrophy and hyperplasia."The massive physiological growth of the uterus during pregnancy is a good example of a hormone-induced increase in the size of an organ that results from hypertrophy of muscle fibers.