Diabetes Unit Assessment - Spring 2022

This is our chance to assess what you have learned in this section of the course.  I am proud of all the hard work that you  have put in and the effort you have made to understand these important and sometimes difficult concepts. I'm looking forward to reading what you have written. 

• This will be open book, open notes AND you may work on it with anyone you would like - myself, fellow student, tutor, etc
• BUT, your answers MUST be in your own words
• therefore it will be submitted through Turnitin.com 

• Do NOT copy and paste answers from assignments, Google sheets, web material or other sources
• You will receive an automatic zero for any work that is not your own.
• Your answers should be written in complete sentences and paragraphs. 
• Take the time to make your answers clear, well organized and easy to read! 
• Proofread

Here are the questions in one  place- but these were all embedded in the Study Guides.

For Fall22 see questions in study guides Questions: 15 points each

D1. When you eat a vegetarian burrito that is filled with beans, rice and cheese.  Describe what happens to the food in each organ of your digestive system.. Make sure to use the following vocabulary: protein, carbohydrate, lipid, amino acid, sugars, fatty acids, digestive enzymes, liquifying, cell membranes. 

D2. You haven't eaten all day and you are starting to feel tired and low energy.  Explain why this is the case, making sure to include the following: how glucose and other monomers get to your cells; how those monomers are absorbed across the cell membrane; what your cells do with those monomers; the relationship between cell respiration, ATP and energy,  where the monomers come from originally before they are absorbed into your blood. 

D3.   After  you eat a meal, your blood glucose concentrations begin to rise. Describe what happens in our pancreas/liver negative feedback loop in order to bring us back to homeostasis?

D4. Describe what happens at the cell membrane of your liver making sure to use all of your vocabulary about cell signaling

D5.As you exercise, you are using a lot of energy.  Describe what happens in our pancreas/liver negative feedback loop in order to keep our blood glucose levels normal?  

D6.  A friend or relative has been diagnosed as diabetic and is confused and worried. How would  you explain to them:

A. The basics of Type II Diabetes- explain what causes the problem both at the cellular and organ level ( ie cell signaling vs. negative feedback etc) 

B. Potential actions they can take to reduce the complications and perhaps even reverse their Type II Diabetes. You may need to draw upon the articles that you read for the discussion as well as what we talked about in class.