Ketoacidosis is a condition in which:

Ketoacidosis is a condition in which:
 a. blood pH is more acidic than body tissues.
  b. blood pH is more basic than body tissues.

Q. 2

What is ketosis?
 a. Medical condition associated with severe obesity
  b. Increased fatty acid oxidation resulting in an abnormal increase in ketone bodies
  c. Alternative term for anaerobic glycolysis
  d. Production of amino acids from fatty acids under stressful conditions

Q. 3

Why is beta-oxidation important?
 a. Allows excess fatty acids to be dissipated as heat
  b. Activates enzymes and hormones that are needed for fat metabolism
  c. Stimulates the release of glucose from muscle glycogen
  d. Prepares fatty acids for ATP production

Q. 4

What is the most common transport protein for fatty acids that have been mobilized from adipose tissue?
 a. Albumin
  b. Branch chained amino acids
  c. Carnitine
  d. Glycerol

Q. 5

After lipolysis, what happens to the glycerol portion of the triglyceride?
 a. Remains in the adipose tissue
  b. Goes to muscle cells to be used as energy
  c. Goes to liver to be used in gluconeogenesis or triglyceride re-synthesis
  d. Goes to the kidney to be excreted in urine

Q. 6

Fat is stored in adipocytes and muscle cells primarily as:
 a. amino acids.
  b. glycogen.
  c. triglycerides.
  d. glucocorticoids.

Q. 7

When the body is stressed by exercise, fat stored in adipocytes is:
 a. mobilized.
  b. demobilized.
  c. unaffected.

Q. 8

When insulin levels are elevated, fat storage is:
 a. inhibited.
  b. enhanced.
  c. unaffected.