1) What does the HPT axis describe? A) How secondary messengers carry out the ef

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1) What does the HPT axis describe?

A) How secondary messengers carry out the effects of a hormone within the cell.

B) The hormone control cascade between the hypothalamus, pituitary, and thyroid glands.

C) The three organs that are most affected by hormones- the hypothalamus, pituitary, and thyroid glands

D) The only organs that produce hormones- the hypothalamus, pituitary, and thyroid glands

2) Which of the following is NOT a way that hormones are removed from circulation?

A) The liver metabolizes them and turns them into bile

B) The kidney filters them out and excretes them as urine

C) They are broken down directly in the blood

D) The pancreas breaks them down

Explanation / Answer

1) B because hypothalamus regulate pituitary and pituitary regulate thyroid glands.

2)a because liver donot metabolize hormones into bile they metabolize chlorestrol into bile.

Yes they are broken down directly in the blood because by the target cell by the enzymes that remove them from the receptors and excretion by the kidneys also occur

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