Use the Following Information to Answer the Following Questions

question 67

Multiple Choice

Use the following information to answer the following questions.
Mouse mutations can affect an animal's appetite and eating habits. The ob gene produces a satiety factor (the hormone leptin) . The db gene product is required to respond to the satiety factor (the leptin receptor) .
-Most obese humans produce normal or increased levels of leptin without satiety. Which might provide an answer to at least some human obesity if a means to do so is found?

• A)supplementary leptin
• B)inactivation of leptin
• C)overexpression of the leptin receptor gene
• D)activation of receptors for leptin
• E)inhibition of leptin receptors

---

Definitions:

Demand and Supply

Demand and Supply are fundamental economic concepts that describe the quantities of goods or services that consumers wish to purchase at various prices and the quantities that producers are willing to sell.

Efficiency Loss

Refers to the waste of resources that occurs when market conditions prevent the allocation of resources in a way that maximizes utility or welfare.

Elasticity of Supply

A measure of the responsiveness of the quantity supplied of a good or service to a change in its price, indicating how producers react to price variations.

Elasticity of Demand

A measure indicating how much the quantity demanded of a good changes in response to a change in the price of that good.