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| Maintenance of a constant internal environment |
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| Body temperature, blood pressure, and heart rate are maintained in a constant range of conditions or variables. |
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| Conditions that change that can affect the internal environment |
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| Is the ideal normal value of a normal range of conditions or variables. |
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| What is the set point for human blood pressure? |
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| 120/80 milometers of Mercury (mm Hg) 120 mm Hg when the hear beats (systolic) and 80 when it rests (diastolic). |
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| What is the set point for human body temperature? |
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| mechanism that regulates homeostasis which is a deviation from set point |
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| Components of this homeostasis mechanism are control center, receptor, and effector. |
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| Control center component of negative feedback is the brain. What is its function? |
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| detects changes due to changing variables |
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| Responds to changes detected |
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| deviation from set point become greater, thus making a bad situation worse |
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