Question

Sameer's father has to take injections of insulin due to diabetes. One day, he decided to collect more information about insulin and to find out whether it is safe to use it frequently for his father? For that he searched about insulin on internet and he got to know that it is nothing but a hormone which is also secreted by pancreas in our body.

(i) What values are shown by Sameer?

(ii) Why does a diabetic person need to take insulin injections?

(iii) Identify the class of hormones to which insulin belongs.

(iv) Give another example of a hormone which belongs to the same class and state its function in our body.

Answer 1

(i) Caring nature and curiosity about scientific aspects of medicines are the values shown by Sameer.

(ii) Insulin governs the metabolism of carbohydrates and helps to maintain blood sugar levels.

(iii) Insulin belongs to peptide hormones.

(iv) Vasopressin is also a peptide hormone which controls the re-absorption of water in the kidney.