Q.

Read the passage given below and answer the following questions from (i) to (v).

A system of control and coordination is essential in living organism to maintain homeostasis as well as to respond to various stimuli. The working together of various organs in an organism, to produce a proper response to a stimulus is called coordination. In animals, control and coordination is done by the nervous system and endocrine system. Hormones in animals conduct a variety of functions like growth, sexual development, vegetative development, cellular respiration, metabolism, thermal production etc. While the nervous system coordinates activities of animals like movement, hormones integrate the coordination. Larger complex animals like vertebrates have endocrine glands to produce hormones.

 

(iv) __________ is a hormone produced by the beta cells of the pancreas.

1 Insulin  
2 Glucagon  
3 Glycogen  
4 Oxytocin  

Ans.

(1)