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Day 8 Answers
1. By sweating
2. It monitors and controls your body temperature.
3. They dilate so that more blood flows through the capillaries and more heat is lost.
4. They contract and you shiver to release energy as heat.
5. The pancreas.
6. Insulin
7. It removes the excess glucose and changes it to glycogen which is stored in the liver.
8. Diabetes.
9. Controlled by diet or the person may need injections of insulin.
10.It may rise to a fatally high level
Day 9 Questions
1. What type of cell division is involved in growth and repair in your body and asexual
reproduction?
2. How many chromosomes are there in a normal human cell?
3. What is a gamete?
4. How many chromosomes are there in a sperm cell?
5. What type of cell division produces the gametes?
6. When meiosis takes place it results in how many gametes?
7. When mitosis takes place it results in how many cells?
8. Meiosis results in variation. What does this mean?
9. What happens at fertilisation?
10.After fertilisation the cells divide to form an embryo. What type of cell division takes
place?