Biology GCSE
Coordination between detection and response
What Coordination between detection and response means in Biology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Each mechanism is explained by linking the stimulus, the response and the resulting heat transfer, with responses coordinated as negative feedback restoring core temperature towards a set point.
Topics that use Coordination between detection and response
- Control of body temperature (biology only) (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Heat transfer by radiation and evaporation
- Homeostasis and negative feedback
- Nervous impulse
- Shivering
- Sweat glands
- Thermoregulation by the nervous system
- Thermoregulatory centre
- vasoconstriction
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