Question

Some patients with metabolic syndrome can continue to gain weight even if they consume fewer calories than other human adults. Based on this finding, which conclusion is MOST likely true?

Use the passage to answer the question.

A)

Metabolic syndrome is a clustering of various conditions including high blood pressure, high blood sugar, excess body fat, high serum triglycerides, and low high-density lipoproteins. Scientists studying metabolic syndrome cultured fibroblast cells from a metabolic syndrome patient and a healthy volunteer and challenged the cells to 100 nM insulin. Ten minutes after the stimulus was applied, they used a protein immunoblot to measure the amount of phosphorylated insulin receptor in

the cultures.

Patients with metabolic synorome do not eliminate as many calories during excretion

Patients with metabolic syndrome do not expend as much energy auring muscle contractions.

Patients with metabolic syndrome have more efficient digestive

systems to extract nutrients from food.

(1 point)

Metabolic Syndrome

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100

Healthy

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100

Insulin (nM) Insulin Receptor

Patients with metabolic syndrome have cells that burn fewer calories to maintain their basal metabolic activity

Phosphorylated Insulin Receptor

Answer 1

Patients with metabolic syndrome do not expend as much energy during muscle contractions.