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What does the maintenance of homeostasis typically involve?


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Homeostasis:

  1. Homeostasis is the process of maintaining stable conditions by living things for survival.
  2. Maintenance of homeostasis involves negative feedback loops.
  3. These loops act to oppose the stimulus, or cue, that triggers them
  4. For instance, a negative feedback loop reverts the body to the target value if the temperature of the body is too high.

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