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  • Created on: 28-04-14 10:37

1. What is the difference between control systems and maintenance systems?

  • There is no difference
  • Control systems regulate indirectly, maintenance systems regulate directly
  • Control systems regulate directly, maintenance systems regulate indirectly
  • Control systems regulate indirectly, maintenance systems don't regulate at all
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2. What is extrinsic regulation?

  • Fast response through the whole body via interactions between organs
  • Fast response through the whole body via interactions between organs
  • Slow response through the whole body via interactions between organ systems
  • Slow response through the whole body via interactions between organ systems

3. What is intrinsic regulation?

  • Fast, local response from one tissue type or organ
  • Slow, whole body response from one tissue type or organ
  • Slow, local response from one tissue type or organ
  • Fast, whole body response from one tissue type or organ

4. What is positive feedback?

  • Mechanism to create a rapid change from a set point in the same direction of change
  • Mechanism to create a rapid change towards a set point in the same direction of ch
  • Mechanism to create a rapid change from a set point in the opposite direction of ch
  • Mechanism to create a slow change from a set point in the opposite direction of ch

5. Which of these is not a mechanism of maintaining cell environment?

  • Maintain temperature
  • Maintain electrolyte levels
  • Maintain weight of products
  • Removal of toxic wastes

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