The Basal Metabolic Rate Is Higher in All of the Following

question 75

Multiple Choice

The basal metabolic rate is higher in all of the following situations except:

• A) youth compared with adult.
• B) male compared with female.
• C) hypothermia compared with fever.
• D) excess of thyroid hormone compared with the normal level.

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Definitions:

Unless

A conjunction used to indicate that a particular situation would occur only if there's an exception or condition not met.

Just In Case

A phrase used to describe a precautionary action taken to prepare for a possible future event or circumstance.

Conditional

A logical statement that has an if-then structure, implying that if one condition is met, then another condition follows.

Negation

In logic, the operation that takes a proposition to its opposite in truth value.