Topic
Homeostasis
Framing Question
How do cells and organisms maintain homeostasis?
Learning Objectives
- Describe how the cell and organism store resources (both in terms of stored energy and chemical building blocks) for times of need and how they mobilize these resources.
- Integrate homeostasis from the cellular to the organismal level. In other words, students should be able to describe how a complex metazoan can have both a cellular and organismal response to maintain homeostasis.
- Compare and contrast homeostasis in different organisms.
- Describe homeostasis at the level of the cell, organism or system of organisms and hypothesize how the system would react to deviations from homeostasis.
