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Stasis

stasis

A word termination indicating the maintenance of (or maintaining) a constant level, preventing increase or multiplication.

Origin: Gr. = a standing still An abnormal state in which the normal flow of a liquid (such as blood) is slowed or stopped.Inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces.Stability, remaining the same or to the norm.


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Insulin/glucagon Confusion

Is it true that insulin and glucagon are never both produced at the same time? Check out this site: http://www.biologymad.com/resources/A2%20Homeostasis.pdf See page 4, last sentence. In my textbook, it shows a diagram where blood glucose level is above the normal range. It shows when this happens a...

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by Joker
Mon Apr 27, 2009 8:03 am
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Insulin/glucagon Confusion
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Natural selection is proven wrong

... in evolutionary biology which states that most sexually reproducing species experience little change for most of their geological history, showing stasis in the fossil record, and that when phenotypic evolution does occur, it is localized in rare, rapid events of branching speciation (called cladogenesis).” ...

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by gamila
Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:31 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
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Views: 16275

Endocrine System - Negative Feedback sites??

http://www.biology-online.org/4/1_physiological_homeostasis.htm

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by MichaelXY
Sat Aug 02, 2008 12:41 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Endocrine System - Negative Feedback sites??
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The Fiber Disease

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by reliefseeker
Mon Nov 20, 2006 11:42 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
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Re: evolution - in the details

... to occur almost overnight if you consider the timeframe of the fossil record. Punctuated equilibrium therefore means long periods of no change/stasis/equilibrium punctuated by periods of rapid change. This impt realization means that the fossil record is not I repeat NOT incomplete, our understanding ...

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by weesper
Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:07 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: evolution - in the details
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