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Question
What is the name of in-built 'arrangement' in our body which controls the timing and amount of hormones released by various endocrine glands in the body?
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Solution
Feedback mechanism is the in-built arrangement in our body that controls the timing and amount of hormones released by various endocrine glands.
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