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    • What is homeostasis?
      Homeostasis is the regulation of the internal conditions of a cell or organism in response to internal or external changes to the enviroment.
    • Why is homeostasis important?
      Because it keeps conditions constant for enzyme action and cell functions.
    • What does homeostasis include the control of? [3]
      - Blood glucose concentration - Body temperature - Water and ion levels
    • What may control systems involve? [2]
      - Responses using nerves - Chemical responses using hormones
    • What is a receptor cell?
      It detects a stimuli
    • What is a stimuli?

      A change to the enviroment
    • Give examples of coordination centres? [3]
      - Brain - Spinal cord - Pancreas
    • What do coordination centres do?
      Receive and process information from the receptors
    • What do effectors do?
      They bring about responses that restore optimum levels
    • What are examples of effectors? [2]
      - Muscles - Glands
    • What happens in negative feedback? [3]
      - A receptor detects a change in a stimulus - The coordinating centre commpares the stimulus to a set point - An effector then produces a response to correct any difference from the set point
    • What does the nervous system enable humans to do?
      Enables them to react to their surroundings and coordinate their behaviour
    • Where does information from the receptors pass to?
      Passes to the central nervous system.
    • What does the CNS coordinate?
      It coordinates the response of effectors.
    • What are reflex actions like?
      Automatic and rapid so they can protect the body
    • Explain the nervous system
      Stimula --> Receptor --> Sensory Neurones --> Relay Neurones --> CNS --> Relay Neurones --> Moto Neurones --> Effector --> Response
    • How do neurones communicate with each other?
      Via synapses
    • What is the electrical impulse name that when it reaches the synapse and has to diffuse across the gap to the other synapse?
      Neurotransmitters
    • What is the endocrine system?
      It is made up of glands that secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream.
    • What are hormones?
      Hormones are chemical messengers that are carried in the blood to a target organ or tissue.
    • Compared with the effects of the nervous system, are the effect of hormones longer?
      Yes, they are also slower.
    • What is the pituitary gland?
      It is the 'master gland'. - It secretes several hormones in response to body conditions.
    • Where is adrenaline produced?
      In the adrenal glands
    • What does adrenaline do to your body?
      It increases heart rate, boosting the delivery of oxygen and glucose to the brain and muscles.
    • What does adrenaline prepare your body or?
      Flight or fight
    • Where is Thyroxine produced?
      In the Thyroid gland
    • What does Thyroxine regulate? [3]
      - Rate of metabolism - Heart rate - Temperature
    • Where is testosterone produced?
      Testes
    • What does testosterone do?

      Controls puberty and sperm production in males.
    • Where is oestrogen produced?
      In the ovaries
    • What does oestrogen do?

      It is involved in the menstrual cycle
    • What monitors and control the blood glucose concentration?
      Pancreas
    • What happens if the blood glucose is too high? [3]
      - Pancreas releases more of the hormone insulin - Insulin is transported to the liver, where it binds with liver cells and causes the glucose to move into the liver cells. - Excess glucose is converted into glycogen for storage
    • What hormone is secreted by the pancreas if the blood glucose concentration is too high?
      Insulin
    • What hormone is secreted by the pancreas if the blood glucose concentration is too low?
      Glucagon
    • What happens if the blood glucose concentration is too low? [2]
      - Pancreas releases glucagon - Glucagon stimulates glycogen to be converted into glucose and released into the blood
    • What is Type 1 diabetes caused?
      - It is caused by the pancreas failing to produce enough insulin
    • What does Type 1 diabetes result in?
      High blood glucose levels
    • How is type 1 diabetes treated?
      By insulin injections
    • What is Type 2 diabetes caused by?
      It is caused by the body cells no longer responding to insulin
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