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What will happen to the metabolic rate OS a rat missing a thyroid gland?
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∙ 13y ago
it will decrease
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What would happen to the cells if there is no thyroid gland?
Eventually cells of the body would die....as the metabolic rate would decrease as thyroxine, released by thyroid gland, controls metabolic rate.
What gland stimulates metabolic rate?
Thyroid gland
The thyroid gland is a large gland that controls metabolic functions throughout the life of an individual?
The Answer is True.
Which is a function on of the thyroid gland?
Control the general metabolic rate.
What is the body's major metabolic hormone?
The Thyroid gland produces thyroxine, which regulates metabolism throughout the body.
The endocrine gland that is probably malfunctioning if a person has a high metabolic rate is the parathyroid?
the thyroid gland
What is the body's major metabolic hormone called?
The body's major metabolic hormone is called the thyroid hormone.
What gland regulates the body's normal metabolic rate?
the hypothalamus located on the brainstem controls metabolic rate by directly secreting hormones and indirectly managing other hormone production by glands of the endocrine system such as thyroid gland.
What hormone is the basal metabolic hormone?
adrenocorticotropic hormone in the anterior pituitary and the Thyroxine(t4) in the Thyroid gland.
Which gland contributes to thermoregulation by adjusting resting metabolic rate?
the thyroid i believe.
An abnormally high metabolic rate could be associated with the functioning of the?
Thyroid Gland
What gland is located at the base of the throat and releases major metabolic hormones?
thyroid
