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Which of the following is an example of the endocrine system maintaining homeostasis?

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Detecting a pain stimulus and sending a signal to the spinal cord to perform an automatic response

Producing an excessive amount of hormones in the blood and not sending a signal to stop production

Releasing insulin to decrease blood sugar and releasing glucagon to increase blood sugar

Using sense organs to get information about the outside world and direct an appropriate body response

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Answer:Releasing insulin to decrease blood sugar and releasing glucagon to increase blood sugar

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Answer:Releasing insulin to decrease blood sugar and releasing glucagon to increase blood sugar

Explanation: homoestasis is the process by which the body keep it's internal environment constant, regardless of change in the external environment. The human body has a normal range in which it's system operates and it uses homoestasis to keep these at constant.

Homeostasis could be positive or negative. It usually involves a sensor which detects the changes in the body and passes the information to the control center, a control center which receive information from the sensor and sends signals to the effectors and the effector which acts on the information sent by the control center to effect normalcy.

In this case, when a person eats food,he gets glucose. Blood sugar most be kept at constant so the endocrine system release the hormone insulin. Insulin helps to convert glucose to glycogen, which is the form it can be stored in the liver

When the blood sugar levels is low, the brain which is the control center causes glucagon to be released . This hormone converts glycogen to glucose

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