C2 topic 5 homeostasis

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what is homeostasis?
the regulations of the conditions inside your body to maintain a stable internal environment
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what are the 3 main components in your automatic control systems?
receptors, coordination centres and effectors
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how do acs' keep your internal environment stable?
using a mechanism called negative feedback
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what is a stimulus?
a change in the environment
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what does automatic process mean?
your body does it automatically; no thinking rquired
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name 2 acs'
hormonal and nervous communication systems
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what does negative feedback do?
counteracts the change if the level of something gets too high or low and brings it back to normal
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what are the 3 main components in your automatic control systems?

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receptors, coordination centres and effectors

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how do acs' keep your internal environment stable?

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what is a stimulus?

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aminaabid786

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hw is this c2 when it should be biology???

aminaabid786

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but its very bery good

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