Diabetes

Blood glucose is regulated by what hormone?

• Lipase

• Pancrease

• Prolactin

• Insulin

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Insulin

• lowers your blood sugar levels

• blocks the sugar in your bloodstream from doing what it is supposed to do

• gives you diabetes

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

Type 1 diabetes is...

• genetic (you get it from your parents)

• when you have it only when you are older

• something you can stop

• when you are fine

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Type 2 diabetes is...

• something you only have as a child

• genetic (you get it from your parents)

• when you can eat lots of sweets

• caused by eating too much and not exercising

You can prevent (stop) type 2 diabetes.

• True

• False

To prevent type 2 diabetes you should...

• not eat healthy food

• sit around and eat McDonalds

• exercise and eat healthy food

• sleep lots

How do type 1 and type 2 diabetes differ?

• Type 1 diabetes usually develops in childhood or at a young age.

• Type 2 diabetes causes difficulty in the body's use of insulin.

• Both of the above

• Neither of the above

If you haven't eaten all day, what hormone is your pancreas most likely secreting?

• Insulin

• Hemoglobin

• Glucagon

• Betadine

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

The type of feedback used in response to diabetes is...

• Positive

• Negative

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

This sends a signal that glucose should be allowed to enter cells.

• Glucose Transport Protein

• Insulin joining up with an insulin receptor

• Glucose passing through a protein

• None of these