Exam 9: Alcohol

Which of the following is a difference between lager beer and ale beer?

The Centers for Disease Control estimates that about 2,200 people die each year simply from drinking too much alcohol. It is particularly dangerous to:

In most states, the legal BAC limit for driving under alcohol influence is 0.15 percent.

________ is a drug that blocks the metabolism of acetaldehyde, so that consumption of alcohol leads to headaches and other unpleasant symptoms of acetaldehyde toxicity.

Which of the following is the major factor determining the rate of alcohol metabolism in the human body?

A lower blood alcohol concentration (BAC) is required to impair the performance of a chronic, heavy drinker than to impair the performance of a moderate drinker.

________ refers to the idea that people should drink beer or wine in moderation but drink no hard liquor.

Describe the process of fermentation of cereal grains to produce alcoholic beverages.

Alcohol is removed by the ________ at a constant rate of 0.25 to 0.30 ounce of ethanol per hour.

Alcohol distributes evenly into fatty tissues, so a 180-pound lean person will have a higher blood alcohol concentration (BAC) than a 180-pound fat person who drinks the same amount of alcohol.

Which of the following is a physiological effect of alcohol consumption?

________ are a basic type of American wines, and they are all blended wines, made from whatever grapes are available, and during processing they are made to taste something like the traditional European wines from those regions.

In regular alcohol consumers, lipids get accumulated in the liver and are stored as small droplets in liver cells and this condition is known as ________.