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Answer the following(a) Which part of the ear determines the pitch of a sound?(b) Which part of the human brain is the most developed?(c) Which part of our central neural system acts as a master clock?

(a) Cochlea, -receptor cells in the organ of corti(b) cerebrum, (c) Brain.

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