The Critical Thinking Application in Your Text Lists Four Skills

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Essay

The Critical Thinking Application in your text lists four skills that are exhibited by critical thinkers.Identify these four skills and show how they might be used by a woman who was trying to decide whether or NOT to begin hormone therapy once she was past menopause.

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Definitions:

Hormones

Chemical messengers produced by glands in the body that regulate the activity of cells or organs.

Insulin Receptors

Proteins on cell surfaces that bind insulin, facilitating its role in glucose metabolism and cellular uptake.

Facilitated Diffusion

The process of spontaneous passive transport of molecules or ions across a biological membrane via specific transmembrane integral proteins.

Glucose

A fundamental sugar vital for energy in living creatures and incorporated into numerous carbohydrate compositions.