1 a. What are three of the safeguards that prevent us from digesting our own tissues? b. Explain how positive and negative feedback mechanisms work. c. Is positive feedback or negative feedback more common in animals?  d. Why is one mechanism more common than the other in animals?

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1 a. What are three of the safeguards that prevent us from digesting our own tissues?

b. Explain how positive and negative feedback mechanisms work.

c. Is positive feedback or negative feedback more common in animals? 

d. Why is one mechanism more common than the other in animals? 

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