What is removed from excess amino acids and excreted in the urine when they are converted to fat? ...

What is removed from excess amino acids and excreted in the urine when they are converted to fat?
 a. oxygen
 b. hydrogen
  c. nitrogen
 d. carbon
 e. ammonia

Q. 2

Whether you eat hamburgers or carrot sticks, if what you eat provides excess calories, they will be turned to ____ in a few hours.
 a. glucose
 b. protein
 c. cellulose
  d. fat
 e. glucagon

Q. 3

The enzyme lipoprotein lipase (LPL) ____.
 a. determines the rate at which adipose cells store fat
 b. signals the pancreas to release insulin
 c. signals the gallbladder to secrete bile into the small intestine
  d. determines the rate at which the liver makes LDL cholesterol
  e. affects the hypothalamus stimulating appetite

Q. 4

Mice with a defective form of the ob gene tend to ____.
 a. be at their normal weight
 b. be underweight
 c. be overweight
 d. drink more water than normal
  e. have low ghrelin levels

Q. 5

The ob gene produces a hormone called ____ that tells the body to stop eating when it is released from fat cells.
 a. insulin
 b. leptin
 c. glucagons
 d. growth hormone
  e. lipase

Q. 6

Sharon weighs 145 pounds and has tried to lose 15 pounds since 10th grade. She loses the weight without too much effort but then over the next few months she returns to her original weight. This would support which obesity theory?
 a. Set-point
 b. Fat cell
 c. Leptin
 d. External cue
  e. Behavioral

Q. 7

Twins raised by adoptive parents tend to have body shapes similar to their biological parents. This supports which theory of obesity?
 a. External cue
 b. Fat cell
 c. Behavioral
 d. Social influence
  e. Genetics

Q. 8

Stephanie goes to a personal trainer who calculates her BMI to be 20 . This means that she is ____.
 a. underweight
 b. normal weight
 c. marginally overweight
  d. overweight
 e. obese