Homeostasis #1

Who was the first person to create the word “homeostasis?”

• Walter Peyton

• Walter Cannon

• Charles Darwin

What is homeostasis?

• the ability to go into chaos rather than balance

• the state of change in an organism

• the tendency to resist change in order to maintain a stable, relatively constant internal environment

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What is the scientific term for a cold-blooded organism?

• Ectotherm

• Endotherm

What is the scientific term for a warm-blooded organism?

• Endotherm

• Ectotherm

What form of feedback uses a counter, or counteracts the variable that changes the system?

• Positive Feedback

• Negative Feedback

• Neutral Feedback

• Constant Feedback

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Does the negative feedback put the system back into balance or overload the system with the same feedback?

• Negative feedback puts the system back into balance

• Negative feedback overloads the system with the same feedback

• Negative feedback does neither. It does nothing.

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Positive feedback intensifies the variable instead of counteracting the variable.

• True

• False

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A baby being born is a good example for which type of feedback?

• Negative

• Positive

• Neutral

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Observing feedback systems and their issues can help solve medical issues before the issues become serious.

• False

• True

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Homeostasis is NOT an important part of biology.

• True

• False

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