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Hormonal communication, plant responses and homeostasis

Canonical unit B15

• Hormones: a message every cell receives and only some can read
  Exocrine and endocrine glands, the hypothalamus and the two lobes of the pituitary, why a peptide hormone needs a second…
• Blood glucose: two hormones, one liver, and two different diabetes
  The normal blood glucose concentration and where glucose comes from, the islets of Langerhans, insulin and glucagon and …
• The kidney: filter everything, then take almost all of it back
  The structure of a nephron, ultrafiltration and the basement membrane, selective reabsorption at the proximal convoluted…
• Plant responses: what the classic experiments actually show
  Tropisms and how they are named, the classic coleoptile experiments and the single conclusion each supports, auxin and c…