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Practice Reading: Fill in the Blanks (Dropdown) ID: #49328 Acclimatization
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Acclimatization  refers  to  any  of  the  numerous  gradual,  long-term  responses  of  an  organism  to  changes  in  its  environment.  Such  responses  are  more  or  less  habitual  and  reversible  should  environmental  conditions    to  an  earlier  state.  The  numerous  sudden  changes  that    rapid  and  short-term  responses  via  the  nervous  and  hormonal  systems  are  not  examples  of  acclimatization.  An  individual  organism  can  regulate  its  internal  processes  rapidly  to  sustain  itself  within  the  usual  range  of  environmental  changes  that  it    hourly  or  daily.  But  this  rapid  regulation,  or  homeostasis,  is  limited  in  its  operation  to  a  small  range  of  environmental  variations.  Homeostatic  regulation  usually  cannot  meet  effectively  large  environmental  changes  such  as  those  that  would  allow  a  plant  or  animal  living  in  the  warmth  of  summer  to    in  the  cold  of  winter.  As  summer  wanes,  organisms  change  their  substance  and  their  habits  in  seeming  anticipation  of  the  coming  winter.  This  gradual  adjustment  to  conditions  is  acclimatization.

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