Why Would a Patient with a Defect in the Obese

question 11

Essay

Why would a patient with a defect in the obese (ob) gene continue to gain weight while a patient with the normal gene would not? Assume they both eat the same diet and are the same height.

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Definitions:

Braided Streams

Networks of river channels that are separated by small, often temporary, islands called braid bars, typically found in environments with high sediment loads.

Cutoff Meanders

These are bends in a river that have been isolated from the main flow due to the river carving a shorter path.

Braided Stream

A network of river channels separated by small, often temporary, islands called braid bars, typically found in areas with high sediment supply.

Sinuosity

The measure of how much a river or stream meanders or the degree of its winding path.