Homeostasis
type of cells that can become any type of cell in the body
What are stem cells?
One of the body responses when body temperature gets too high
What is sweating or vasodilation (the expanding of blood vessels)
Communication system involving brain, spinal cord, and nerves
what is the nervous system?
process by which stem cells commit to one type of cell
What is determination?
One of the body responses when body temperature gets too low
What is shivering or vasoconstriction, the standing up of hairs on your body (goosebumps)
Communication system involving glands and hormones
What is the endocrine system?
Three aspects of the body that must be maintained in order to achieve homeostasis.
What is water level, Body Temperature, and Blood Sugar!
Process by which stem cells gain specialized structures
What is differentiation?
The hormone that causes glucose to be released from the liver when blood sugar is to low
What is glucagon
consists of the diaphragm, trachea, and pharynx... involved in gas exchange
What is the respiratory system?
The type of feedback that helps maintain homeostasis
What is negative feedback
Levels of organization from simplest to most complex beginning with a cell
What is cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism?
The part of the brain that registers a change in the body
What is the hypothalamus
system that eliminates waste products... includes the kidneys
What is the excretory system?
If homeostasis is not achieved this occurs...
What is death!
4 types of tissue found in the human body
what is nervous, muscular, epithelial, and connective?
The hormone that regulates the amount of water in the body
What is Antidiuretic hormone (ADH)
System involved in storing Vitamin D
What is the skeletal system?