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What is homeostasis?
Mantaining a stable internal enviroment
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How does the nervous system comunicate?
Electrical impulses
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3 ways the body kept the runners body at normal levels?
sweating,chemical reactions, body fuel
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What 3 different types of neuron is there?
sensory, relay,motor
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What does the voluntary part of the nervous system do?
writing,talking, running
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What does the involuntary part of the nervous system do?
breathing, blinking,knees
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Where is the relay neurone found?
spinal cord
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Are reflexs slow or quick reponses?
quick
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what is the main purpose of a reflex?
to protect
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Reflexs happen with/without you think about them
without
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What is a synapse connection between?
two neurones
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what is the pathway of a reflex called?
reflex arc
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Why is it useful that the end of a neurone branched?
can stimulate in several places at, increased surface area
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What is the effect of a stimulant drugs on synapses?
makes more transmitter sustance crooss the gap so impulse travels faster
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What are hormones?
are chemicals that instruct organs of the body to do/make things
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Where are hormones made?
glands, sometimes organs
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What is type 2 diabetes?
when your body doesn't produce enough insulinor doesn't react to it
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Where is thyroxine made in/by?
thyroid
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What is throxines target organ?
cells
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What is adrenaline made in/by?
adrenal
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What is adrenalines target organ?
heart
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What is adrenalines job?
prepares the body for a fight or flight response,increases heart rate
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What is type 1 diabetes?
where there is no insulin
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When does type 1 diabetes develop?
in children and young adults
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When does type 2 diabetes develop?
over 40s
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What does FSH stand for?
follicle stimulating hormone
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Where is FSH made?
pitutary gland
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What does LH stand for?
luteinising hormone
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What hormones are women given before egg collection?
FSH and LH
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What is a pro of IVF?
convincing/healthy baby
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What is a con of IVF?
very expensive
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