Match Each Term with Its Corresponding Description or Definition

question 31

Multiple Choice

Match each term with its corresponding description or definition.
-A second messenger for some hormones

• A)Endocrine gland
• B)Negative feedback
• C)Target organ cell
• D)Steroid hormone
• E)Prostaglandin
• F)Exocrine gland
• G)Nonsteroid hormone
• H)Cyclic AMP
• I)Positive feedback

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Definitions:

Potential Energy

The stored energy in an object or system due to its position or configuration.

Positron Emission Tomography

A type of medical imaging technique that uses radioactive substances to visualize and measure changes in metabolic processes and other physiological activities in the body.

Metabolism

The set of life-sustaining chemical transformations within the cells of living organisms that allows them to grow, reproduce, maintain their structures, and respond to their environments.

Isotopes

Variants of a chemical element that have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons in their atomic nuclei, resulting in different atomic masses.