The Hypothalamus Serves in Part as an Integrated Thermoregulatory Center

Multiple Choice

The hypothalamus serves in part as an integrated thermoregulatory center defining an organism's response to changes in its thermal environment. Because the hypothalamus normally serves to produce metabolic responses that reverse the direction of environmental temperature change, the control it exerts is termed

A) positive feedback.
B) metabolic compensation.
C) negative feedback.
D) feedforward.
E) None of the above