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DISCUSS THE CONCEPT OF HOMEOSTASIS PARTICULARLY IN RELATION TO TEMPERATURE CONTROL
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DISCUSS THE CONCEPT OF HOMEOSTASIS PARTICULARLY IN RELATION TO TEMPERATURE CONTROL In complex organisms organs are united to form organ systems such as the digestive, reproductive, nervous and muscular systems. The fact that all of the organ systems generally work in a highly coordinated manner suggests strongly that organisms possess distinct physiological control mechanisms that make the coordination of such highly complex processes possible. One of the most interesting features of such control mechanisms is that they are built into the system to regulate it. The controls are self-adjusting and do not require constant monitoring from an outside agent. Such controls maintain the system in equilibrium. Maintaining a constant internal environment is a struggle which of course is one that every physiological system ultimately loses; death being the final failure of the bodies system. By internal environment we mean the immediate vacinity of the cells, mammalian tissue cells are surrounded by...
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