Homeostasis, Lab Quiz with accurate detailed answers

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What is homeostasis? - ✔✔It is the property of the body that regulates its internal
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environment and tends to maintain it in equilibrium which can be identified as a state of
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physical balance. ||




Besides the lungs what other organ controls blood pH? - ✔✔Kidneys.
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What organ controls glucose levels in the body? - ✔✔Liver.
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What organ controls water volume in the body? - ✔✔Kidneys.
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What are the lungs' main function? - ✔✔Their main function is to carry out gas exchange.
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What do all cells need? - ✔✔All cells need oxygen for cellular respiration.
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Where does oxygen come from? - ✔✔It comes through blood.
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In all cells (by diffusion). - ✔✔Blood carries oxygen to cells. Cells carry carbon dioxide to
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blood



In lungs (alveoli) by diffusion. - ✔✔Blood carries carbon dioxide to alveoli. Alveoli carries
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oxygen to blood. || ||




If you stop to breathe this is the reaction that occurs. Carbon dioxide is carried in the blood
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as bicarbonate ions. - ✔✔CO2 + H20 <- / -> H2CO3- <- / -> HCO3- + H+
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