understand that homeostasis is the maintenance of a constant internal environment and that body water content and body temperature are both examples of homeostasis
Homeo - Same
Stasis - Fixed point/conditions / maintenance
1. Homeostasis - Body conditions are kept constant
2. Homeothermic - Maintaining the same temperature
Mammals:
- Homeothermic organisms
- Body temperature remains constant with varying environmental temperatures (made possible by thermoregulation)
3. Mammals maintain a constant body temperature
Rate of reaction (enzyme catalysed reaction) / Temperature graph
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| Source: bbc.co.uk |
Maximum rate of reaction is achieved at the optimum temperature
Optimum temperature is approx. the same as the temperatures mammals maintain their bodies at
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