Explain how insulin and glucagon are antagonists.

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Hey, everyone. Let's take a look at this question together which of the following statements about insulin is false. Is it answer choice A? It is produced by the beta cells. Answer choice B it is released after a meal. Answer. Choice C it promotes gluconeogenesis or answer choice D it increases glucose uptake by cells. Let's work this problem out together to try to figure out which of the following answer choices contains a statement about insulin that is false. So in order to solve this question, we have to recall what we have learned about insulin to determine which of the following statements is a false starting off with answer choice A which says that insulin is produced by the beta cells. Well, we know that insulin is indeed produced by the beta cells making answer choice. A, a true statement as insulin is produced by the beta cells of the pancreas. So answer choice A cannot be the correct answer. Next. We have answer choice B which says that insulin is released after a meal, which we note that insulin is released after a meal. Making answer choice B A true statement since insulin is released after a meal in response to the high blood glucose levels. So answer choice B cannot be the correct answer. Next, we have answer choice C which says that insulin promotes gluco genesis. Well, we know that glucon noesis is the synthesis of glu glucose which would result in more glucose and insulin does not promote gluconeogenesis. So answer choice C is a false statement as insulin inhibits gluconeogenesis and does not promote gluconeogenesis. Since insulin generally opposes processes that would increase the blood glucose levels, which means that answer choice C is a false statement. So answer choice C is the correct answer. And we know that answer choice D is incorrect. Since answer choice D also contains a true statement as it says, insulin increases glucose uptake by the cells which we know that insulin facilitates the cellular uptake of glucose helping to reduce blood glucose levels. So answer choice D is incorrect and answer choice C is the only correct answer choice. As it contains a false statement about insulin. I hope you found this video to be helpful. Thank you and goodbye.