Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Feedback (The Negative Kind)


A negative feedback loop is when a system overcompensates for a phenomenon by feeding back into itself and recreating a homeostatic environment.

Dr. Rood helped us create a chart based on the experiment that he did on himself in class. He ate a Snickers bar really quickly and then drank a soda and measured the reaction that his body had to the sugar. It was pretty amazing. The chart is at the top of this post!


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