The Basics
These basic elements bond together to form molecules.
What are atoms?
What is unicellular?
A group of organs working together is called this.
What is an organ system?
HeLa cells are named after this woman.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
These are the most basic units of life.
What are cells?
Organisms made of more than one cell are called this.
What is multicellular?
A group of similar cells that work together to perform a task is called this.
What is tissue?
HeLa cells were the first line of ____________ human cells.
What is immortal?
Everything living and nonliving is made up of them.
What are atoms?
An amoeba is this kind of organism.
What is unicellular?
Two or more tissues working together to perform a task is called this.
What is an organ?
What was the problem with how scientists got the HeLa cells?
They did not ask for Henrietta or her family's permission to take and use her cells.
Fill in the blank: All cells come from ________
What are cells?
This is the process of cells becoming specialized as the body develops.
What is cell differentiation?
What are subsystems?
This type of cancer is where the HeLa cells came from.
What is cervical cancer?
Correct this statement: All living and nonliving things are made up of cells.
All living things are made of cells.
Correct this statement: Every bacterium is a living thing made up of multiple cells.
Every bacterium is a living thing made up of one cell.
Correct this statement: Each cell carries on its own life functions without depending on other cells in the organism.
Each cell carries on its own life functions while depending in some way on other cells in the organism.
HeLa cells have helped scientists create vaccines for many different types of diseases - The ____ vaccine was developed to prevent the original cancer that gave us HeLa cells.
What is the HPV vaccine? - Which you should get between ages 11-12!