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-Guarantee passing score -53 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: Glucocorticoids are steroid hormones that usually enhance the immune responses when an individual is suffering from severe stress.
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Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 629-631 Question 2: Aldosterone is the most potent mineralocorticoid produced in the adrenals but the least abundant.
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Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 627-628
Question 3: In humans, melatonin may inhibit sexual maturation.
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Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 635
Question 4: Pituitary hormone targets of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH).
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Testes or Ovaries Question 5: All of the following hormones are secreted by the adenohypophysis: ACTH, FSH, and LH.
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Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 616 Question 6: The endocrine structure that develops from the nervous system is the anterior pituitary.
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Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 612-613 Question 7: The endocrine gland that is probably malfunctioning if a person has a high metabolic rate is the parathyroid.
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Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 621, 624-625
Question 8: Hyposecretion of the thyroid in infants.
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Cretinism
Question 9: The prime metabolic effect of cortisol is gluconeogenesis.
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Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 629
Question 10: Direct gene activation involves a second-messenger system.
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Answer: FALSE
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 609-610
Question 11: Produces a hormone that controls blood levels of calcium and potassium by their removal from bone tissue.
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Parathyroid Question 12: The beta cells are the pancreatic islet cells that produce insulin.
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Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 632 Question 13: Follicle cells of the thyroid gland produce thyroglobulin, while follicle cells of the parathyroid produce calcitonin.
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Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 620, 624 Question 14: While glucagon is a small polypeptide, it is nevertheless very potent in its regulatory effects.
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Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 632 Question 15: All peptide hormone synthesis requires gene activation that produces mRNA.
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Answer: TRUE
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 607-608
Question 16: The hormone that raises blood sugar levels is insulin.
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Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 632-633 Question 17: Produces the hormones that promote the development of the female secondary sexual characteristics at puberty.
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Ovaries
Question 18: Both ?turn on? factors (hormonal, humoral, and neural stimuli) and ?turn off?factors (feedback inhibition and others) may be modulated by the activity of the nervous system.
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Answer: TRUE
Question 19: Produces the boyd's major metabolic hormones.
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Thyroid Question 20: Calcitonin is a peptide hormone that has destructive effects on the skeletal system.
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Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 624
Question 21: Produces hormones and is considered a neuroendocrine organ.
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Hypothalamus Question 22: Atrial natriuretic peptide is a hormone that controls blood pressure in part by increasing the urinary excretion of sodium.
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Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 629
Question 23: The gland that controls the fight-or-fligh reaction.
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Adrenal medulla Question 24: Storehouse for the hormones produced by the hypothalamus of the brain.
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Pituitary Gland
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