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Thyroid gland
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What gland stimulates metabolic rate and is essential to normal growth and development?
adrenal
What part of the nervous system is responsible for speeding up metabolic process?
There are many factors which affect an organism's metabolic rate, but the thyroid gland is a gland in the neck which produces thyroxine, a hormone that stimulates metabolism.
Which is a function on of the thyroid gland?
Control the general metabolic rate.
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.
The endocrine gland that is probably malfunctioning if a person has a high metabolic rate is the parathyroid?
the thyroid gland
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.
Which endocrine gland releases a hormone that regulates the rate of metabolism?
The thyroid gland released thyroid hormone, which overall sets the basal metabolic rate. However, other hormones can temporarily affect metabolic rate, including epinephrine and norepinephrine.
Which gland contributes to thermoregulation by adjusting resting metabolic rate?
the thyroid i believe.
What will happen to the metabolic rate OS a rat missing a thyroid gland?
it will decrease
An abnormally high metabolic rate could be associated with the functioning of the?
Thyroid Gland
What important gland in your endocrine system control how fast your body burns nutrients?
The thyroid gland controls the metabolic rate.
Which gland stimulates the metabolism?
the thyroid gland
