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Predicting how blood glucose is affected by exercise


When you created your glucunulus in your previous lesson, you analyzed data about glucose use by different tissues of the body.  After looking at this data, you were able to determine that the muscles use less glucose (per % body weight) than some of the other organs like the brain, kidneys, etc.  When a person is exercising, many tissues and systems in their body are at work, particularly their tissues.  Before analyzing a graph about blood glucose levels relative to exercise, answer the question below. 


Questions

Please answer the questions below.

What do you predict will happen to a person's blood glucose levels as they exercise?  Your answer should be as specific as possible and should include a quantitative prediction, not just qualitative.  Remember that you can scroll backwards through any of the previous pages if you need to. 


Notes

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