Homeostasis

Refer: Chapter 21 from Textbook

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Exchanges with the External
Environment
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Regulating the The internal environment of vertebrates includes the interstitial fluid that fills the
spaces between cells and exchanges nutrients and wastes with microscopic blood
Internal vessels.
• Homeostasis , which literally means “steady state,” is the tendency to maintain
Environment relatively constant conditions in the internal environment even when the external
environment changes
Discussion

Give examples of Losing the ability

to maintain homeostasis in human body

Give examples situations where human body overcomes

homeostasis intentionally
Negative feedback

• Homeostasis depends on the principle of Negative feedback.

• Results of a process inhibit that same process.
• Example: How A/C regulates the room temperature.
Positive feedback

• Results of a process intensify that same process.

• Example: Labor during childbirth.