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krzymel

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What are the observed effects of sleep deprivation on leptin and ghrelin?
 
  a. Leptin and ghrelin both increase
  b. Leptin and ghrelin both decrease
  c. Leptin decreases while ghrelin increases
  d. Leptin increases while ghrelin decreases
  e. Sleep deprivation only affects leptin and gherlin in very elderly or unhealthy individuals.

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Which of the following is a feature of weight gain and genetics?
 
  a. Obese people can change their genome but not their epigenome.
  b. Exercise has little, if any, effect on the genetic influence on weight gain.
  c. Identical twins are half as likely to weigh the same compared with fraternal twins.
  d. Adopted children tend to have body weights more like their biological parents than their adoptive parents.
  e. There is very little evidence that genetic factors contribute to obesity, except in the presence of certain rare syndromes.


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fdliggud

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Reply #1 on: Aug 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: C

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D


krzymel

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Reply #2 on: Aug 20, 2018
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