After you eat lunch, the nutrients in your food are released in the digestive process and eventually make their way into the blood. The rising nutrient levels quickly move beyond the standard homeostatic range. Normally, a hormone would be released at this time to regulate these nutrients. Imagine that in your case, that return to homeostatic levels does not occur. What hormone would you need to receive to return blood levels to normal?
A. glucagon
B. insulin
C. cortisol
D. epinephrine
E. growth hormone
B. insulin
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In an allograft, the tissue donor is
A) the recipient. B) a non-relative. C) a dizygotic twin. D) a monozygotic twin.
The difference between somatic cell gene therapy and germline therapy is that
A. germline therapy is the temporary repair of a genetic mutation, whereas somatic cell therapy is a permanent fix. B. germline therapy overcomes a protein malfunction in specific tissues but is not repaired in the entire organism and cannot be passed on to offspring. C. somatic cell gene therapy is introduced into the egg, sperm or developing embryo, whereas germline therapy introduces a new gene into a mature tissue. D. somatic cell gene therapy overcomes a protein malfunction in specific tissues but is not repaired in the entire organism and cannot be passed on to offspring.
The eukaryotic cell will complete the portion of the cell cycle will lead to
A. synthesis; build the two new daughter cells from the original one cell. B. cytokinesis; move the centrioles, centrosomes, and mitotic spindle into position to pull chromosomes apart. C. interphase; build the mitotic spindle and metaphase plate between original and replicate chromosome groups. D. mitosis; divide the original and replicated chromosomes for the cell to divide into two daughter cells. E. binary fission; divide the original and replicated chromosomes.
All the populations of a particular kind of organism are members of the same:
A. ecosystem B. species C. habitat D. community