Biology GCSE
Homeostasis and negative feedback
What Homeostasis and negative feedback means in Biology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Homeostasis and negative feedback
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Responses such as sweating, vasodilation, shivering and vasoconstriction are coordinated by the nervous system as negative feedback, restoring core temperature towards a set point.
Topics that use Homeostasis and negative feedback
- Control of body temperature (biology only) (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Coordination between detection and response
- Heat transfer by radiation and evaporation
- Nervous impulse
- Shivering
- Sweat glands
- Thermoregulation by the nervous system
- Thermoregulatory centre
- vasoconstriction
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