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3.4.1 - 2 Homeostasis
3.4.1 - 2 Homeostasis
1 --- HOMEOSTASIS
Your body and its individual cells need just the right
conditions to perform at their best.
A cell’s delicately balanced chemical reactions work
best within narrow limits of temperature, pH, solute
concentration etc.
Simple aquatic organisms (like Amoeba and seaweeds)
obtain their food, water and oxygen directly from the
water that surrounds them.
More complex organisms carry their own internal sea
inside them (the tissue fluid), which is in contact with all
the living cells of the body.
Tissue Fluid
Many organisms can control conditions of temperature,
fluid balance and chemistry within themselves (their
‘internal environment’) even when conditions in their
external environment are changing.
• What is homeostasis?
• Name a simple aquatic organism
• Name some things in our body that we have
to keep steady
• What is tissue fluid?
• What is meant by “internal environment”?
Homeostasis
Homeostasis means “controlling internal conditions”:
They do so through
lenticels, which are areas
where the packing of bark
cells is loosened up a bit.