Biology·Organisation & maintenance · NSSCO 3.14
Homeostasis
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How your body keeps a steady internal world — negative feedback, controlling your temperature by sweating and shivering, balancing blood glucose with insulin and glucagon, and what goes wrong in diabetes.
What you'll learn in this lesson
By the end you should be able to (NSSCO Biology 3.14):
- Define homeostasis and explain control by negative feedback
- Describe temperature control in humans (sweating, shivering, vasodilation, vasoconstriction)
- Describe the control of blood glucose by insulin and glucagon from the pancreas
- Outline the symptoms and treatment of Type 1 diabetes
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