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Title: Web Tutorial 41.2 Homeostasis
Caption: Animals must maintain stable internal conditions, despite constant changes in the outside environment. How do they achieve this stability, called homeostasis? This tutorial explores the regulation of body temperature in mammals as an example of how homeostatic mechanisms operate.
Keywords: effector, endotherm, homoeostasis, integrator, negative feedback, sensor, set point