Round 1
This metabolic disease, where the pancreas does not produce enough insulin, resulted in 1.5 million deaths in 2019
Diabetes
Endocrinology as a study didn't become common until the 1800s, but one country has been studying it for over 2000 years, as well as extracting hormones relating to it. Which country?
China
The American Cancer Society estimates how many people in the US will die from pancreatic cancer?
48,000
Cone snails have a venom that sends their prey into hypoglycemic shock. A condition brought on by plummeting what?
Blood sugar levels
This organ has taste buds to detect sugar in the blood, which allows it to release appropriate amounts of insulin.
Pancreas
Osteoporosis is common disease of aging people that endocrinologists often treat because the underlying cause is usually hormonal. What does it usually affect?
Bones or Bone Density
The first genetically - engineered synthetic "human" insulin was produced in a lab in the 1977 using what bacterium?
E. coli
Early Native Americans created the first of these, which was used to inject medicines into a person, using hollowed-out bird connected to an animal bladder.
Syringes
Andre the Giant, a WWE wrestler and actor known for his massive size, had a condition affecting his pituitary gland resulting in too much what hormone?
Growth
Plants can manufacture hormones even though they don't have a what system?
Endocrine system
Estradiol, Estriol, and Estrone are types of what hormone?
Estrogen
Bernardo Alberto Houssay won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the role these hormones play in the regulation of blood sugar.
Pituitary hormones
Which gland is referred to as the "master gland" because it controls the secretions of other glands?
Pituitary gland
The master gland of the endocrine system, the pituitary gland, is the size of what?
A. a walnut B. an avocado C. a fist D. a pea
D. a pea
Testicles in a healthy male can produce 6 milligrams of what hormone every day
Testosterone
Before modern technology, doctors would taste what of suspected diabetic patients?
Urine
Hypothyroidism occurs when your thyroid, a gland in your neck, doesn't make enough hormones. True or False
True
Steroid, protein, and amine are classes of what?
Hormones
The medulla and cortex are the two parts of what adrenaline-producing gland?
Adrenal