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For each of the following statements choose the term from the two choices
1) Insulin will cause the blood sugar level to increase/decrease.
Answer: increase
2) When the blood sugar level is high/low, islet cells will release glucagons.
Answer: low
3) Diabetes mellitus may result from dysfunction of the alpha/beta cells.
Answer: Beta
4) One effect of adrenaline is the increase/decrease in blood flow to skeletal muscles.
Answer: increase
5) As a response to stress, the adrenal medulla/cortex secretes adrenaline.
Answer: cortex
6) Releasing factors from the hypothalamus stimulate hormone production in the anterior/posterior pituitary.
Answer: anterior

2007-03-20 05:48:11 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Biology

2 answers

1) Decrease
Insulin helps cells move sugar into themselves, taking the sugar out of the blood. Glucagon helps increase blood sugar.
2) Correct
3) Correct
4) Correct
5) Medulla. The chromaffin cells release adrenaline, and they're in the medulla. The cortex makes steroid hormones from cholesterol.
6) Correct

2007-03-20 06:11:19 · answer #1 · answered by Brian L 7 · 2 0

1.DECREASE(insulin decreases the glusoce level and glucagon increases)
2.LOW
3.BETA
4.INCREASE
5.MEDULLA(The chromaffin cells of the medulla are the body's main source of the catecholamine hormones adrenaline (epinephrine))
6.ANTERIOR

2007-03-20 06:13:15 · answer #2 · answered by ANITHA 3 · 0 0

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