VERIFIED ANSWERS
\.Classic symptoms of diabetes include: - ANSWERS✔-excessive urination
\.Choose the two main functions of the pancreas: (Select 2 of the 4 answers) -
ANSWERS✔-it produces and secrete enzymes into the digestive system
it controls glucose level in the blood steam through the secretion of insulin
\.Immediately after his one year of surgical residence at Toronto's Hospital for Sick
Children, Fred Banting - ANSWERS✔-opened his own practice to see patients
\.An IACUC (Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee) must have at least five
members. One of these members must be a non-scientist. - ANSWERS✔-true
\.When Banting and Best performed their experiments on dogs, they need
approval from a committee before they could begin animal work. - ANSWERS✔-
false
\.Fred Banting developed his idea on how to treat diabetes while he was: -
ANSWERS✔-preparing a lecture for medical students
, \.In 1921, the best way to measure glucose in blood was based on: - ANSWERS✔-
the final color of a mixture of blood and some reagents
\.Blood test are only for measuring the number of red blood cells a person has. -
ANSWERS✔-false
\.The best treatment for diabetes about 1915 was known as: - ANSWERS✔-the
starvation diet
\.In 1921, picric acid was used as a - ANSWERS✔-both a common laboratory
reagent and an explosive for artillery shells
\.James Collip needed an assay for the activity of insulin in order to develop a
purification method. His assay for insulin activity was based upon: - ANSWERS✔-
measuring the change in blood sugar levels in rabbits
\.Arnold Beckman invented and sold one of the first integrated - ANSWERS✔-pH
meters
\.George Walden was the engineer at the Eli Lilly in charge of insulin production
and purification. George Walden's major contribution was that: - ANSWERS✔-he
invented isoelectric precipitation
\.Fred Banting died in 1941 from: - ANSWERS✔-a plane crash