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| How is homeostasis regulated at the cellular level? |
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| Protein functions, conformation, and communication. Changes in Extra Cellular Fluid. |
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| What three components constitute homeostatic regulatory mechanism at the organism level? |
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| Sensors (monitor functions), effectors (systems that act to regulate conditions), reference point (set the "norm") |
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| Positive feedback systems always have a positive influence on an organism's homeostasis, true or false. |
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| False, the often do not maintain homeostasis. |
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| What are the four classes of tissue in humans? |
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| Epithelial (lines, protects, absorbs, filters, and secretes) Connective tissue (support, protect, hold together and partition body parts) Muscle (movement of external & internal body parts) Nerve Tissue (neurons and Neuroglia) |
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| Responsible for learning, short-term memory, arousal, and reward |
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| Responsible for increasing introversion, mood, satiety, body temperature, and sleep. |
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| Responsible for motor system reward, cognition, endocrine, and nausea |
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| Responsible for arousal and reward |
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| Group of tissues that perform a specialized function |
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| Plasma membrane, organelles-nucleus, rough and smooth ER, Golgi complex, lysosomes and peroxisomes, mitochondria, cytoskeleton |
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| Functions of the Cytoskeleton |
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-Maintain cell shape and structural stability
-Maintain position of organelles
-Maintain position of some membrane proteins
-Assist in cell movements
-Role in homestasis |
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