Homeostasis Flashcards

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What is Homeostasis

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it is the regulation of the internal conditions of a cell or organism to maintain optimum conditions for function in response to internal and external changes

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What does Homeostasis do?

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Maintains OPTIMAL conditions for enzyme action and all cell functions .

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What does homoeostasis control

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1.blood glucose concentration
2.body temperature
3.water levels
these automatic control systems may involve nervous responses or chemical responses

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All control systems include what and explain the feature with the function

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cells called receptors, which detect stimuli (changes in the
environment)
* coordination centres (such as the brain, spinal cord and pancreas)
that receive and process information from receptors
* effectors, muscles or glands, which bring about responses which
restore optimum levels

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