A basketball player helps maintain stable body temperature during the game by sweating. The sweat helps cool his body by evaporating. What is this an example of? a, mitosis
b. homeostasis
c. respiration
d. digestion

hormones in blood stream

image: dtc.ucsf.edu

endocrine glands secrete hormones into the blood stream near them; the hormones then travel in our bloodstream until it reaches its destination, called a target cell, in distance parts of the body. in the target tissue, hormones lock onto the target’s plasma membrane, called the receptor site.