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Cheyenne Duckett
Week 1- Homeostasis
Question | Answer |
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Shivering to raise your body temperature is an example of | the body trying to maintain homeostasis as the example of a negative-feedback mechanism |
What does a positive-feedback control system do? | Accelerate the change |
What system is least involved with homeostasis? | Reproductive System |
Where is the bodies thermostat located? | They Hypothalamus |
What is pathogenesis? | The course of a diseases development. |
Which is the most complex: Viruses, Tapeworms, Bacteria and Protozoa | Tapeworms |
What is epidemiology? | The study of occurrence, distribution and transmission of diseases in human populations. |
What is a set point? | A normal reading or range of normal. |
What does a negative-feedback control system do? | Oppose a change |
What do viruses contain? | Intracellular parasites that consist of DNA/RNA surrounded by a protein coat and sometimes by a lipoprotein envelope. |