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Human Physiology
Week 7: Assigments 1 and 2
Question | Answer |
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Processes for maintaining or restoring homeostasis are known as | Homeostatic control mechanisms |
To accomplish self-regulation, a highly complex and integrated communication control system or network is required. This type of network is called a(n) | Feedback control loop |
Because negative feedback control systems oppose changes that are opposite in direction to the initial disturbance, they are | Slowed or maintained in the homeostatic range |
Local control or _____, intrinsic mechanisms often make use of chemical signals. | Autoregulation |
The concept that information may flow ahead to another process to trigger a change in anticipation of an event that will follow is called | Feed-forward |
The carbon-containing molecules formed by living things are often called | Organic molecules |
Any large molecule made up of many identical small molecules is called a(n) | Polymer |
All proteins have which four elements? | Carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen |
A saturated fatty acid is one in which | All available bonds of its hydrocarbon chain are filled. |
What determines how a protein performs? | Shape |