BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
THE NERVOUS AND ENDOCRINE SYSTEMS
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Question
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What is a response?
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a change in the external environment
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any change in an organism
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how an organism reacts to a stimulus
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how a plant turns away from the light
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -In nervous system: Stimulus-response coordination. The simplest type of response is a direct one-to-one stimulus-response reaction. A change in the environment is the stimulus; the reaction of the organism to it is the response.
Detailed explanation-2: -The ability of an organism to respond to external stimuli is called sensitivity. For example, Plants grow towards light(external stimuli) sources, and if the direction of light is changed, the plant will also change its direction of growth to accommodate for survival.
Detailed explanation-3: -A response is the behavior that is manifested by a living organism which is the result of an external or internal stimulus.
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