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Homeostasis
Control of glucose concentration
Why is it important to have glucose in the blood but not too much of it?
Which structures are in charge of it keeping it constant?
How does the liver manage it?
What does the liver receive?
What will insulin tell the liver to do?
What will glucagon tell the liver to do?
Diabetes
When do we say that a person has diabetes?
When do we say that a person with type 1 diabetes has hyperglycaemia?
Which are the five symptoms?
When do we say that a person with type 1 diabetes has hypoglycaemia?
Which are the three symptoms?
Why is it important for the people with diabetes to try to control the concentration of glucose in their blood?
The skin
What two parts does the skin consist of?
How is the cornified layer made?
What is the function of the cornified layer?
What is melanin?
Where do hairs grow and what they made of?
Maintaining the internal environment
What is homeostasis?
Why is homeostasis important?
In which way is the body benefited with each function that homeostasis performs?
What structures and systems help in the process of homeostasis?
Control of body temperature: clasification
What are endothermic animals?
What are ectothermic animals?
What are the two advantages of the endothermic characteristic?
What is required when being endothermic?
The dermis
What is the dermis and what four elements is it made up of?
What gland does it contain?
Why does the dermis have adipose tissue in the lower part?
The hypothalamus
What is the hypothalamus?
What is the function of the hypothalamus and what elements does it use to perform it?
What does it send?
Body temperature
Falls
What happens are the four actions that occur?
Why do we shiver?
Why does our metabolism speed up?
Why do the hairs stand up on end?
Why is vasoconstriction necessary?
Rises
What are the four actions that occur?
Why do our hairs go flat?
Why vasodilation important?
Why do we sweat and what happens with that water?
Negative feedback
Why is the process of the hypothalamus called negative feedback?
What does each term of the collocation mean?