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--Henry David Thoreau Walden
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Homeostasis Vocab |
"Time is but the stream I go a-fishin' in." --Henry David Thoreau Walden |
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| adaptation | any feature of an organism that improves its chances for survival. | |
| behavioral homeostasis | the maintenance of consistent, viable behavior. | |
| evolution | the change in allele frequency over time in a population. | |
| homeostasis | the maintaining of viable internal conditions. | |
| hormone | a chemical messenger in multicellular organisms that usually travel in body fluids to target cells, where it combines with receptors and affects some aspect of metabolism, growth, or reproduction. | |
| morphological homeostasis | the maintenance of a viable form. | |
| physiological homeostasis | the maintenance of a viable physiological state. | |
| protein hormone | require a second messenger mechanism | |
| steroid hormone | pass freely through plasma membrane and directly affect response. | |
| thermoregulation | the regulation of a viable temperature. | |
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