After driving from sea level to a trail head in the high Cordilleras, you get out of your car and feel dizzy. What do you suppose is causing your dizziness? How is this beneficial and how is this detrimental? What may eventually happen that would counteract the cause of the dizziness?

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1. After driving from sea level to a trail head in the high Cordilleras, you get out of your car and feel dizzy. What do you suppose is causing your dizziness? How is this beneficial and how is this detrimental? What may eventually happen that would counteract the cause of the dizziness?

2. Explain the function of bicarbonate in pancreatic juice.  How may peptic ulcers in the duodenum be produced?

3. Explain why the pancreas is considered both an exocrine and an endocrine gland.  Given this information, predict what effects tying of the pancreatic duct would have on pancreatic structure and function.

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