Living Systems Have the Capacity to Detect Environmental Changes and Compensate

question 53

Multiple Choice

Living systems have the capacity to detect environmental changes and compensate for them through controlled responses. This is possible because living systems have ____.

• A) sensitivity
• B) hormones
• C) nerves
• D) reflexes
• E) receptors

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Definitions:

Business Activity

Any actions undertaken by a company as part of its operations, including production, sales, marketing, and administration.

Unit Costs

Unit Costs refer to the total expenditure incurred to produce, store, and sell one unit of a product, including all variable and fixed costs.

Variable

An element, feature, or factor that is liable to vary or change; in science and mathematics, a quantity that can assume any of a set of values.

Fixed Costs

Charges that are unaffected by changes in production or sales volumes, like lease payments, employee salaries, and insurance costs.