Can you identify characteristics of type 1 and type 2 diabetes?To learn about diabetes, watch this BioFlix animation: Homeostasis: Regulating Blood Sugar -- Diabetes. Diabetes: Read each sentence and decide whether it describes type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, or both. Drag the terms on the left to the appropriate blanks on the right to complete the sentences.

1. Type 1 diabetes is a type of auto immune disease in which the causative agent of disease attacks on the cells responsible for defending that disease. Hence, in case of diabetes 1, pancreas is restricted from producing insulin. While in case of diabetes 2, there is enough insulin but body gets resistant to it.

2. Type 1 diabetes usually occur in children and Type 2 diabetes occur after the age of 40 or in adulthood.

3. Sugar level is high in case of both the diabetets types. In type 1 sugar build because no insulin is produced and in type 2 sugar increases because of bodies getting resistant to insulin.

Hence, the correct match is

Type 2 diabetes - target cell do not respond normally to insulin

Type 1 diabetes - no insulin is produced

Both type 2 and type 1 diabetes - Glucose level remains higher than normal