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Define Homeostasis

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The maintenance of an internal environment within a living organism despite. Internal or external changes to the environment.

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2
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Negative Feedback Loop

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Stimulus, regulator, effects, response/communication

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Negative Feedback

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Some variables triggers a counteractive response, in order to come back to some set points.

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Positive Feedback

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Instead of getting a counteractive response to some variable, you’re instead intensify the variable.

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5
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Chemoreceptor

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Chemical

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6
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Photoreceptor

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Light

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Mechanoreceptor

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Touch, Pressure, Stretching, Motion, Sandwaves

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8
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Thermoreceptor

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Heat

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9
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Nociceptor

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Detects damage

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10
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How is Homeostasis Maintained?

Hormonal homeostasis pathways….

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… involve the endocrine system, can be slow, chemical messengers, travelling in bloodstream

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Natural Homeostasis Pathways

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Involves the nervous system, is very rapid, Electric impulse, travelling along the nerves.

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12
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What is Hormonal Control?

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Hormones are chemical messages produced by an organism to regulate the activity of cells and organs.
Endocrine-Travel long distances through the body to target cells.

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The Endocrine System; in mammals

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In mammals, hormonal are produced in the endocrine glands which are released directly into the blood vessels.

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14
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What systems work together to maintain homeostasis?

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Endocrine and Nervous system

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What does Hormones affect?

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Hormones affects only certain tissue cell or organs called Target Organs.

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Target Cells Must Have…. and why do they bind?

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They must have protein receptors present on the cell membrane to allow the hormone to attach. Hormones must bind to the target cell to influence the cell.

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17
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The Flow of Information along Nervous System (3)

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  1. Receptor detects a change in conditions (Stimulus)
  2. Receptor to the CNS by a sensory memory (message)
  3. CNS to an organ an (effector) carries out a response a motor Nevron carries the message.
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18
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What does CNS stand for?

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Central Nervous System

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19
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What does PNS mean?

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Peripheral Nervous System

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20
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Moto Nevron

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Carry messages from the brain to allow us to move our muscles

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21
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Interneuron

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Connect neuron to other neuron

22
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Sensory Neuron

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Sensory neuron receive information from sense organs. Send sensory information to our brain and spinal cord.

23
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What is Thermoregulation

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Thermoregulation is maintenance of a constant internal temperature of an organism independent of the temperature of the environment.

24
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Thermoregulation-What happens when the temperature approaches 10 degrees

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As the temperature approaches 10 degrees enzymes activity shows when it is below this temperature

25
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Thermoregulation- What happens when the temperature is above 45 degrees?

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Above 45 degrees enzymes start to denature, stopping metabolic activity.

26
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Where does Ectotherms get their body heat

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They get their body heat mainly from their environment and can tolerate a reasonably wide range of body temperatures.

27
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What are Endotherms?

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They are animals that can maintain a constant body temperature independent of the environment.

28
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Thermoregulatory Mechanisms:

  1. Physiological Mechanisms
    - Thermogenesis=
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Is the production of heat within tissues to rise body temperatures.

29
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Thermoregulatory Mechanisms:
1. Physiological Mechanisms
Vasodilation=

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Dilation of blood vessels in the skin

30
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Thermoregulatory Mechanisms:
1. Physiological Mechanisms
Vasoconstriction=

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Construction of blood vessels in the skin

31
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Thermoregulatory Mechanisms:
1. Physiological Mechanisms
Evaporative heat loss

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An arrangement of blood vessel in which heat flows from warmer to cooler blood usually reducing heat loss.

32
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Behavioural response:

kleptothermy

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is any form of thermoregulation by which an animals steals the body heat of another animal

33
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Behavioural response:

Torpor:

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Physical or mental inactivity in which the metabolic rate is lowered

34
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Behavioural response:

Hibernation

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Is used to survive in winter

35
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Behavioural response:

Aestivation

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Is used to survive summers

36
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Homeostatic Mechanism:

Thyroid hormones

A

Thyroid hormones increase metabolic rate

37
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Homeostatic Mechanism:

Insulin

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Insulins rule in the thermoregulation is to activate genes that control body temperatures

38
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Structure Features:

Brown adipose tissues

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Specialised for rapid heat production. Transfer energy from food into heat.

39
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Structure Features:

Increased number of mitochondria per cell

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Enable organism to generate heat by increasing the rate at which they metabolise fats and sugar.

40
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Structure Features:

Insulations

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Traps warm air to insulate organism

e.g, features, blubber

41
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What is difference between an infectious and non-infectious disease?

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Infectious disease can spread, non-infectious cannot

42
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What are the two types of parasites?

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Endo and Ecto

43
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Give three examples of non-infectious diseases

A

diabetes, obesity, cancer

44
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Which lines of defence are classed as the innate immune system?

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1st and 2nd

45
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What is the role of the first line of defence?

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To provide physical and chemical Barries to prevent the entry of pathogens

46
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What two processes are involved in the second line of defence?

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Inflammation and Phagocytosis

47
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Which line of defence do cilia and mucus membrances

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1st line

48
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list the 4 virulence factors that aid in pathogenesis

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Adherence factors, invasion factors, capsules and toxins

49
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Epidemics

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A widespread occurrence of a disease in a community at a particular time

50
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Pandemics

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A disease that affects a whole country or the entire world (more to do with geographical spread of disease)

51
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Proportion of population that is immune or has been immuised herd immunity

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Occurs when a large percentage of the populations is immunised against a disease to protect those people in a population who are especially vulnerable to infectious diseases