Informational listening occurs when one seeks to learn information. For example, this is the kind of listening students employ in classroom settings to gain knowledge about a topic.  

ANIMALS:  Animal A consumes 5 liters of oxygen per day and produces 4.8 liters of carbon dioxide in a day. Animal B consumes 2 liters of oxygen per day and produces 1.9 liters of carbon dioxide per day.  Which statement best describes the correlation between these measurements and energy use in the animals? 

This animal has a closed circulatory system.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS The next set of questions are multiple choice. Each question is worth 3 points.  Be sure to read the directions – some questions ask you to choose the TRUE statement and some the FALSE statement.  There is no penalty for guessing, so you should attempt every question. 

At 30 minutes of the glucose tolerance test (panel C) the control mice (white circles) have greater flux of glucose into most cells than the ob/ob mice (black circles) do.

INSULIN:   Which statement about insulin in healthy adult humans is INCORRECT?

At 60 minutes of the insulin tolerance test (panel D) the control mice (white circles) have hypoglycemia.

The highest pressures in the circulatory system of this animal would be found in the hemocoel. 

Microkernel [3 points] Greg, a core Linux contributor, is skeptical about Microkernel. He mentions that the 100x cost of the Protected Procedure Calls between different servers due to Address-Space Switching are too high to be able to achieve good performance. Provide two points as counterarguments to Greg’s point of view.

PANCREAS:  In the homeostatic regulation of glucose, the alpha cells of the endocrine pancreas function as the…