Which of the following statements is not true about metabolism?
a. basal metabolism is the amount of energy needed for sustaining life.
b. basal metabolism is measured by the amount of calories burned when your body is inactive.
c. metabolism is influenced by numerous factors, such as heredity and age.
d. younger people generally have a slower metabolism than adults.

17. explain why or why not you might choose to utilize alternative, complimentary, and integrative/or medicine. explain how these types of medicine are different from traditional (orthodox) medicine?

Sensory adaptation of cutaneous temperature receptors some types of sensory receptors, like pain receptors, will continue to transduce pain until the stimulus is removed. other sensory receptors may respond with an initial burst in production of action potentials, but will “adapt” and over time action potentials will cease. sensory adaptation occurs, for example, with olfactory receptors for smell. procedure have the subject place one hand in an ice bath while simultaneously placing the other hand in a warm water bath (@40oc). the subject should keep their hands in the designated baths for two minutes. after two minutes, remove both hands and place both hands in a room temperature water bath. record your observations review questions 1. describe how each hand felt after taking them out of the designated water baths and placing them into the room temperature water bath. 2. define sensory adaptation and relate it to what happened to the temperature receptors in the subject’s hands. 3. list and describe sensory receptors that adapt, and sensory receptors that do not.

What are 3 important public health tools for addressing flu outbreaks and why