What is control and coordination?

All these movements discussed in the previous section are in response to the environment.

That means, every change in the environment elicits a movement in response .

Example; if you fall down and get hurt, you immediately reach out for first aid.

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Let us consider another scenario,

In a library, we do not talk loudly in order to not disturb the fellow readers. We merely whisper if we want to communicate.

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We analyze and recognize various events or stimuli and display only the correct response.

(Stimulus (singular) / Stimuli (plural) - Things that cause an action or response)

 

Thus there is control and coordination in our movements with respect to events around us.

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So in our body which has multicellular (organism consists of more than one cell) organ system level body organization, specialized tissues are used for control and coordination .

These tissues are nervous tissues and muscular tissues.

First we are going to discuss the Nervous System in detail.

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CA Maninder Singh is a Chartered Accountant for the past 14 years and a teacher from the past 18 years. He teaches Science, Economics, Accounting and English at Teachoo