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What depends on the body's ability to maintain or restore homeostasis
survival
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Homeostasis is the term used to describe the relative constancy of the body's what?
internal environment
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The basic type of homeostatic control system in the body is called a what?
feed back loop
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Homeostatic control mechanisms are categorized as what two types of feedback loops?
positive or negative
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Negative feedback loops tend to do what?
stabilize conditions
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Positive feedback control loops are what?
stimulatory
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Changes and functions that occur during the early years are called what?
developmental processes
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Changes and functions that occur after young adulthood are called what?
aging process
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