What is happening in the scenario? A possum is playing dead.

Body System 1 and its function: Muscular System
The muscular system's main function is to allow movement

Body System 2 and its function: Nervous System
The nervous system controls your movements, thoughts, and automatic responses to the world around you.

In this scenario, how are these body systems interacting to help the organism return to normal (homeostasis)?

The nervous system sends signals throughout the body letting the possum know that are no predators near, and then the muscular systems releases its muscles to return to normal/homeostasis.

fertilization, pictured in figure 24.23a is the process in which gametes (an egg and sperm) fuse to form a zygote. the egg and sperm each contain one set of chromosomes. to ensure that the offspring has only one complete diploid set of chromosomes, only one sperm must fuse with one egg. in mammals, the egg is protected by a layer of extracellular matrix consisting mainly of glycoproteins called the zona pellucida. when a sperm binds to the zona pellucida, a series of biochemical events, called the acrosomal reactions, take place. in placental mammals, the acrosome contains digestive enzymes that initiate the degradation of the glycoprotein matrix protecting the egg and allowing the sperm plasma membrane to fuse with the egg plasma membrane, as illustrated in figure 24.23b. the fusion of these two membranes creates an opening through which the sperm nucleus is transferred into the ovum. the nuclear membranes of the egg and sperm break down and the two haploid genomes condense to form a diploid genome.

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