Homeostasis
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- Created on: 04-05-15 13:19
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- Homeostasis
- Is the control of the internal environment of the body.
- Thermoregulation
- The body needs to maintain a constant temperature, 37.c.
- If the body gets too hot, then the enzymes will de nature so that the shape is lost.
- If the body gets too cold then the enzymes will not have enough kinetic energy to catalyst the reaction.
- The thermoregulatory center in the brain is called the hypothalamus.
- The body needs to maintain a constant temperature, 37.c.
- Osmoregulaton
- Water levels must also be monitored.
- This is to protect from too much water or too little from entering the body.
- We gain water by Eating and d.rinking
- We loose water by sweating, urination and breathing (as water vapour)
- Your kidneys maintain the level of water in the blood.
- Water levels must also be monitored.
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