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NDA 2020 GAT · General Knowledge · Human Physiology · easy

The hormone that prepares the body to face an emergency, increasing heart rate and blood sugar, is

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The hormone that prepares the body to face an emergency, increasing heart rate and blood sugar, is
  1. A. thyroxine
  2. B. insulin
  3. C. adrenaline
  4. D. oestrogen
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Answer: (C) adrenaline

Adrenaline from the adrenal medulla is the fight-or-flight hormone: it raises heart rate, breathing rate and blood glucose, and diverts blood to muscles. Thyroxine controls metabolism, insulin lowers blood sugar and oestrogen is a female sex hormone.
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