How do the changes help the body adjust to maintain equilibrium?

As your body converts food into energy during exercise, it produces heat as a waste product. This extra heat can elevate your body temperature above the typical 98.6 degrees. To maintain homeostasis, the blood vessels in your skin dilate to allow more blood flow to the surface of your body where it disperses the heat.

Explanation:

the sugar-phosphate backbone forms the structural framework of nucleic acids, including dna and rna. this backbone is composed of alternating sugar and phosphate groups, and defines directionality of the molecule.

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