Homeostasis
This is the process of maintaining a stable internal environment.
What is homeostasis?
This is another name for blood sugar.
What is glucose?
This hormone lowers blood glucose levels.
What is insulin?
This disease affects the body's ability to control blood glucose levels.
What is diabetes?
In this type of feedback, the response counteracts the original stimulus.
What is negative feedback?
This is the body's normal temperature of about 98.6°F.
What is set point/uniform?
Blood glucose levels usually rise after this activity.
What is eating?
This hormone raises blood glucose levels.
What is glucagon?
In this type of diabetes, the body produces little or no insulin.
What is Type 1 diabetes?
In a negative feedback system, the structure that detects a change is called this.
What is a receptor?
When the body becomes too hot, it does this to help cool down.
What is sweating?
This organ stores extra glucose as glycogen.
What is the liver?
This organ produces both insulin and glucagon.
What is the pancreas?
In this type of diabetes, body cells do not respond properly to insulin.
What is Type 2 diabetes?
The part of the feedback system that processes information and determines the response is called this.
What is the control center?
These are changes in the environment that can cause the body to respond.
What are stimuli?
When blood sugar becomes too low, the body releases stored glucose to raise it.
What is blood glucose regulation?
After eating, this hormone is released to help cells take in glucose.
What is insulin?
These cells in the pancreas release glucagon when blood glucose levels become too low.
What are alpha cells?
Muscles and glands that carry out the response in a feedback system are called these.
What are effectors?
These specialized structures detect changes in the environment and send information to a control center.
What are receptors?
The maintenance of stable blood glucose levels is an example of this body process.
What is homeostasis?
When blood glucose is low, this hormone signals the liver to release stored glucose.
What is glucagon?
In Type 1 diabetes, the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys these cells in the pancreas, reducing the body's ability to produce insulin.
What are beta cells?
When blood glucose rises, insulin is released and causes glucose levels to decrease toward normal. This demonstrates this type of biological regulation.
What is a negative feedback loop?