Which description best captures homeostasis?
Answer & explanation
Ongoing regulation that keeps important internal conditions within workable ranges.
Cells need a viable environment, but maintaining it requires continuing activity. Feedback responses can oppose disturbances while allowing normal variation. A stable average therefore does not imply an inactive body.
Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology E-Book (Guyton Physiology)
Chapter 1 · Functional Organization of the Human Body and Control of the "Internal Environment"
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