Homeostasis

The water potential of pure water is

• 10

• 0

• 100

• -100

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The maintenance of an internal environment within restricted limits is called

• homostasis

• homeostatsis

• homeostasis

• homoestasis

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Positive feedback occurs when a deviation from an optimum causes changes that result in...

• an even greater deviation from the normal

• a return to the normal condition

• a reduced deviation from the normal

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

The correct term for an animal that can maintain its own body temperature is an

• Ectotherm

• Endotherm

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Hormones only affect their ______ cells and not other cells because these cells have the receptors

Name the process that converts glucose into glycogen

• Gluconeogenesis

• Glycogenolysis

• Glycogenesis

• Glucogenesis

________ is the breakdown of glycogen to glucose

The lighter coloured outer region made up of the renal capsules, convoluted tubules and blood vessels is called the

• fibrous capsule

• cortex

• medulla

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This tiny vessel that leaves the renal capsule. Has a smaller diameter and so causes an increase in blood pressure within the glomerulus

• Afferent arteriole

• Bowmans capsule

• Efferent arteriole

True or false

ADH increases the permeability of the collecting ducts so that more water is reabsorbed into the nephron

• True

• False

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