Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is produced by the

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: Hormones, secreted by endocrine glands, travel via blood to distant targets, regulating processes like metabolism (e.g., insulin). Neurotransmitters act locally at synapses, not via blood neural signaling. Enzymes catalyze reactions, not signaling via transport. Ions (e.g., Ca²⁺) mediate intracellular signals, not blood-based communication. Hormones' systemic delivery distinguishes them, key to endocrine function, unlike local, catalytic, or ionic roles.

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: Hormone release is controlled by hormonal (e.g., TRH to TSH), humoral (e.g., glucose to insulin), and neural (e.g., sympathetic to epinephrine) mechanisms triad covers endocrine regulation. Sensory isn't a direct mechanism external input, not release control. Hormonal-humoral-neural trio distinguishes it, critical for dynamic endocrine response, unlike sensory-inclusive errors.

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: ADH increases kidney water reabsorption and constricts blood vessels (V1 receptors), raising blood pressure volume and resistance boost. Decreased reabsorption contradicts ADH diuresis lowers pressure. Dilation would drop pressure, opposing constriction. Increased reabsorption with constriction distinguishes ADH's action, critical for pressure/fluid regulation, unlike decreasing or dilatory errors.

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: Growth hormone (GH) doesn't promote glucose metabolism it inhibits uptake, raising blood glucose (insulin antagonist), favoring fat metabolism (lipolysis) instead. It boosts amino acid entry and protein synthesis (growth). Glucose metabolism is insulin's domain GH spares it. Fat metabolism promotion distinguishes GH's role, key to its anabolic shift, unlike amino acid, protein, or glucose claims.