Sunday, February 6, 2011

gamsat practice question

Okay so I am a little bored atm so I figured i would try stitching together a gamsat question or 2... hopefully there will be a lot more of these to come... please let me know what you think!

Regulation of blood glucose level is tightly controlled by feedback mechanisms in the body.  Insulin is a released from beta cells in the pancreas in response to a meal eaten.  As glucose levels drop during fasting, the pancreas secretes glucagon from alpha cells that release glucose from body stores.  Thirty minutes after eating a large sweet meal consisting of cake and candy, which of the following blood levels would be expected?

A.    Low Glucose Low Insulin
B.     High Glucose Low Insulin
C.     Low Glucose High Insulin
D. High Glucose High insulin


Put your answers in the comments!

9 comments:

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  2. I'm going to say A.

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  4. i think it's D. high blood glucose because of all the cake, and high insulin as the body will have pumped out a load of insulin to compensate for the high blood sugar.

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  5. I agree with Anonymous above: D

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  7. Same, I agree with anonymous and Cass.. though im not sure how long it takes for insulin to start working away at packaging glucose, because if it takes less than 30 mins, then glucose will be low and insulin will be low too.

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  8. Yeah, without any timescale information it's hard to tell, but from the information given I'd say D. p.s. nice spam on this post!

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