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How do the pupils get smaller and why?
Circular muscles contract and radial muscles relax so the retina is not damaged by bright light
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How is body temperature controlled by vasoconstriction?
Arterioles get narrower, blood flow in skin capillaries decreases and heat loss from skin is reduced
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Where is the thermoregulatory center?
Hypothalamus
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How is body temperature controlled by vasodilation?
Blood vessels supplying capillary loops dilate so more blood flows near skin surface and heat is radiated away
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What is body temperature?
37oC
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What is ADH and what does it do?
Anti-diuretic hormone-> makes collecting duct more permeable to water so more is reabsorbed and less lost in urine
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What is accommodation?
changes that take place to allow us to see objects at different distances
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What is the amount of light entering the eye controlled by?
size of pupil changes due to muscles in the iris
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What do effectors do?
Produce a response to a detected stimulus
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What is the reflex arc?
Stimulus, receptor, sensory neurone, relay neurone, motor neurone, effector, response
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What is another term for nerve cells?
Neuone
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What is the CNS and what does it stand for?
Central Nervous System, brain and spinal cord
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What do receptors do?
Detect a stimulus
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