Cannon (1932) described the capacity for an animal to regulate its internal environment as the product of a suite of physiological processes, called homeostasis. Homeostatic mechanisms are dynamic ...

So homeostasis isn't really just one "thing". It’s all the different collective processes that an organism carries out to maintain the internal conditions necessary for survival, and you and I ...

Recent studies indicate that nutrient-sensing mechanisms in the body activate negative-feedback systems to regulate energy and glucose homeostasis through a neuronal network. Direct metabolic ...

Plants also undergo the process of osmosis, in the same way that animals cells do, but they do not burst when placed in distilled water, because of their cell walls. Sweat glands in the skin ...