HOMEOSTASIS Flashcards

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DEFINE HOMEOSTASIS

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The ability or tendency of an organism or a cell to maintain internal equilibrium by adjusting its physiological processes.

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NEGATIVE FEEDBACK EXAMPLE

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When the body’s temperature increases, the body responds by the sweating, that’s related from the sweat glands, hairs lay flat to help control the body’s temperature and vasodilation (blood vessels widen) to reduce the body temperature.

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POSITIVE FEEDBACK EXAMPLE

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Child birth, when your body is producing oxytocin that makes your body contract.

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