Basics
smallest unit of a carbohydrate
What is glucose?
What is a monosaccharide?
The organ that works to regulate blood sugar by releasing hormones into your blood stream.
What is the pancreas?
The general age range for type 1 diabetes
What is 30 years of age or younger?
Percent of the population Type 2 diabetes affects.
What is 90%?
The first step in cellular respiration
What is glycolysis?
2 forms of fiber
What is soluble and insoluble?
Two hormones the pancreas secretes.
What is Insulin and Glucagon?
The percent of the population type 1 diabetes effects
What is 10%?
3 risk factors for Type 2 diabetes
What is age, family history, obesity, lifestyle, ethnicity?
The component used to breakdown fatty acids, glucose, and amino acids.
What is oxygen?
Highly branched version of starch
What is Amylopectin?
The hormone released when Blood sugar is too low.
What is glucagon?
possible treatments for Type 1
What is injecting insulin?
What is implanting beta cells?
The main difference of type 2 from type 1
What are overall cells become resistant to insulin while type 1 there is no production of insulin?
Glucose gets broken down into...
What is 2 pyruvates?
The monosaccharides of Lactose
What is galactose and glucose?
The cells responsible for production of insulin
What is beta cells?
The term used when blood sugar is too low.
What is hypoglycemia?
2 Long term effects
What is heart disease, stroke, kidney damage, blurred vision, nerve damage?
The main product of cellular respiration
What is ATP? (energy)
The enzyme needed for breakdown of starch.
What is amylase?
Where is this found?
What is an explanation to why a person would have type 1 diabetes?
Their beta cells are destroyed and therefore they can't produce insulin to allow glucose into the cell.
The term used when Blood sugar is too high
What is Hyperglycemia?
why is exercise a good treatment for type 2 diabetes?
Exercise/ getting your body moving will allow muscle cells to become less resistant to insulin, in addition it reduces the outcome of heart disease.
What needs energy in your body to function?
What is your brain? What is metabolism? What is nervous system? What are transporters?