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Our body's internal environmental factors like; water level, solutes and body temperature keeps on changing but that happens within a very narrow range and has no adverse effect. However, when there are fluctuations in the external environment, it may have deleterious effects on an individuals' normal bodily functions. And hence, the protection of internal environment from the harms or fluctuations of external environment is termed as homeostasis. It helps regulate our body's temperature, solute and water level etc.
Cells need to carry out osmosis to stay hydrated. Osmosis does not take any ATP to function. It diffuses through the cell membrane to make it so that the concentration inside the cell is about the same as the concentration levels outside the cell.
Homeostasis is important for our system to be functional!, for example our body maintains 37 degree Celsius inside. So cellular enzymes require the same temperature to carry out biological reactions, if it drops to 30 degrees and we don't have homeostasis to bring back 37 degrees, then most of the enzymes that need 37 degrees would be poorly active.
Homeostasis is the process of regulating the internal environment so that it remains constant. This helps cells because it reduces the stress placed on the cell that would occur with changing solute concentrations, temperature, etc.
Osmosis occurs in the small intestines which contain the villi. There are blood vessels connected to the villi so nutrients/glucose in the small intestines diffuses through the semi-permeable membrane of the cells in the blood vessel.
Homeostasis is maintained through the plasma/cell membrane. The cell membrane performs osmosis to do so
Homeostasis is all of the collective internal functions of an organism that help to maintain all of the conditions needed for survival. (Example: Some cells may be low on water and others may have too much, so osmosis occurs across cell membranes to maintain normal water levels and to promote homeostasis.)
A cell must maintain homeostasis in order to function properly. Cells use osmosis, diffusion, passive transport, and active transport in order to maintain homeostasis. If a cell cannot maintain homeostasis, it will die.
homeostasis in ecosystems is when The ecosystem is balanced out, such as, if there is an abundance of food, animals multiply, but choke out the food. Then the animals die, the food comes back, so on and so forth. Homeostasis in cells is when the cells are balancing out. The difference is, the cells are responding on their own. while, the ecostystem preforms homeostasis with logical moves, because an ecosystem isn't a living thing. :D But homeostasis is homeostasis is homeostasis. It's basically a balancing responce. Hope that helps some?
Because onions have relatively large cells that are easy to prepare for use under a microscope, so that the effects of osmosis on these cells can easily be observed.
Our body's internal environmental factors like; water level, solutes and body temperature keeps on changing but that happens within a very narrow range and has no adverse effect. However, when there are fluctuations in the external environment, it may have deleterious effects on an individuals' normal bodily functions. And hence, the protection of internal environment from the harms or fluctuations of external environment is termed as homeostasis. It helps regulate our body's temperature, solute and water level etc.
So as to maintain homeostasis in the body cells.
Cells need to carry out osmosis to stay hydrated. Osmosis does not take any ATP to function. It diffuses through the cell membrane to make it so that the concentration inside the cell is about the same as the concentration levels outside the cell.
because it is.
Homeostasis is important for our system to be functional!, for example our body maintains 37 degree Celsius inside. So cellular enzymes require the same temperature to carry out biological reactions, if it drops to 30 degrees and we don't have homeostasis to bring back 37 degrees, then most of the enzymes that need 37 degrees would be poorly active.
This is due to the process of osmosis. The water in the cells of the carrot are trying to reach homeostasis with the salt water, so the water is flowing out of the cells. This results in cells that are limp and that then feel spongy.
It is very important that the conditions inside organisms stay the same, because cells can survive only in certain ranges of conditions.