BME 3 Final Review Questions And Answers With Verified Study Solutions

A child who develops diabetes typically loses weight. In 1920, the best treatment for this child would be to: - Answer-restrict diet, causing more weight loss A complete lack of vitamin A in a person's diet can lead to: - Answer-Blindness A continuous glucose monitor measures blood glucose approximately once every: - Answer-Minute A protein is a chain of - Answer-Amino acids Afrezza and Exubera are two different insulin delivery systems. The most notable difference between the two is: - Answer-the inhaler for Exubera is much larger than the inhaler for Afrezza An IACUC (Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee) must have at least five members. One of these members must be a non-scientist. - Answer-True An insulin molecule in circulating in your bloodstream consists of: - Answer-two chains of amino acids linked together by disulfide bonds An insulin pen differs from an insulin pump because - Answer-an insulin pump is attached to your body by tubing, but an insulin pen is not Around 1920, the amount of glucose in blood could be measured by an electronic meter. - Answer-False Banting's method of isolating insulin involved a surgical procedure to tie off ducts in the pancreas, waiting several weeks, then removing the pancreas. - Answer-This method was used to produce insulin for just a few timesChoose the two main functions of the pancreas: (Select 2 of the 4 answers) - Answer-It produces and secretes digestive enzymes into the stomach. It controls glucose level in the blood stream through the secretion of insulin. Currently, if a scientist wants to experiment on mammals, the scientist's experiment must be approved by a committee that is composed entirely of other scientists. - Answer-False Diabetes (type 1) is caused by - Answer-an autoimmune reaction Diabetes was first described - Answer-Independently by many different cultures Engineered E. coli bacteria containing recombinant DNA is not dangerous to humans because: - Answerit is incapable of surviving outside well controlled laboratory environments Fred Banting developed his idea on how to treat diabetes while he was: - Answer-preparing a lecture for medical students Fred Banting died in 1941 from: - Answer-A plane crash Fred Banting grew up: - Answer-On a farm Fred Banting performed his experiments on dogs at - Answer-University of Toronto From the 1920s through the 1960s, insulin used by patients with diabetes came from which sources: - Answer-pigs and cows If a patient with diabetes was seeing Dr Elliot Joslin during the 1950's, which is more likely to characterize the patient's treatment plan: - Answer-a strict diet and multiple injections of insulin each day In 1920 the company Eli Lilly was known for manufacturing - Answer-Capsules for drugsIn 1976, a US city held hearings on the safety of recombinant DNA in research. This city was home to which university: - Answer-Harvard In the 1960's Margaret Crane was working as a: - Answer-product packaging designer In the 1960's, the annual supply of insulin was limited by: - Answer-the number of cows and pigs slaughtered each year