Quiz 7

A danish study correlating the weights of 540 adopted children with various adoptive in biological relatives found that________

A higher correlation with biological relatives, then adoptive relatives

The brain find out about the degree of stretch of the stomach from__________

Activity of the vagus nerve

Chronically high insulin levels lead to increased appetite by________

Causing a high percentage of available glucose to be stored as fat

Axon from the satiety sensitive cells are the arcuate nucleus deliver an___________message to the paraventricular nucleus releasing________

Excitatory, Melanocortions

After eating, Valerie, small intestine, absorbs, excess water, and minerals

False

Sheila has trouble regulating her insulin levels. What might happen if her levels got high?

Glucose entry into the cells increases

There are many chemicals and brain areas that contribute to feeding and satiety. Why might this be?

Hanson has the answer

The term_______ refers to the temperature regulations and other biological processes that keep body variables within a fixed range

Homeothermic

A fever _______

Is part of the body's defense against illness

Why do both high levels and very low levels of insulin lead to increased eating?

Little glucose is reaching the cells to be used as fuel

The temperature required by reproductive cells of birds and most mammals is________

Lower than the rest of the body

The esophagus brings food from the________

Mouth to the stomach

For the most obese individuals, giving them leptin would________

Produce little effect

When neuropeptide Y inhibits the paraventricular nucleus it________

Produces extreme overheating

Homeostasis refers to the temperature regulation another biological processes that keep the body variables within a fix range

True

Most mammals are about the age of a weaning lose the intestinal enzyme lactase

True

The physiological changes that defend body temperature depend on areas in and near the hypothalamus

True

Valerie has a fever. This is caused by a change in the set point of her body temperature.

True

Which hormone controls the rate at which glucose leaves, the blood enters the cells?

insulin

A combination of the hormones aldosterone and angiotensin II leads to an increase in preference for ____ tastes.

salty