Waze: The Human Body Edition
Palms facing anterior, body upright, and legs parallel are all descriptors of this.
What is Anatomical Position?
This term comes from the Greek phrase meaning "Stays the same."
What is Homeostasis?
This is known as the cell's control center, where genetic information is stored.
What is the Nucleus?
This process creates 2 identical daughter cells, and is used for cell growth and repair in the body.
What is Mitosis?
This "Superstitious" singer's blindness is actually due to retinopathy of prematurity.
Who is Stevie Wonder?
This invisible horizontal line divides the body into superior and inferior halves.
What is the transverse plane?
The three parts of a feedback mechanism are the receptor, the effector, and this.
What is the Control Center?
This is the term for the gel-like fluid that is found everywhere except the nucleus.
What is the Cytoplasm?
How many chromosomes does a typical, non-gamete human cell have?
What is 46?
Often attributed to Ted Lasso, this Walt Whitman quote is Mr. G's favorite.
What is "Be curious, not judgmental?"
The fingers are _____ to the brachium (upper arm).
What is Distal?
Trillions of chemical reactions happen daily in the body in order to maintain life. This is called _______.
What is Metabolism?
This folded up organelle used for packaging proteins kind of resembles the Spotify logo.
What is the Golgi Apparatus?
The hallmark event of this step in cell division is marked by chromatids pulling away toward opposite poles of the cell.
What is Anaphase?
Name any behavioral psychologist that we studied in last year's "Human Growth and Development" unit.
Who are Erikson or Maslow?
No matter where you go in the human body, this organ is the most superficial.
What is the Skin?
This process seeks to counteract excessive levels (like body temperature) by triggering opposing reactions to relieve excess.
What is a Negative Feedback Loop?
This organelle is the site of protein synthesis.
What is the Ribosome?
This phase happens before both meiosis and mitosis, and involves growth and replication of DNA in preparation for cell division.
What is Interphase?
Free Solo is a documentary following Alex Honnold's perilous ascent up El Capitan, a rock face in this beautiful national park.
What is Yosemite National Park?
The diaphragm separates the abdominopelvic cavity and this cavity.
What is the Thoracic Cavity?
Cellular respiration is a process in which a cell derives this form of usable energy.
What is ATP (adenosine triphosphate)?
This would be the most common organelle to be found in the saliva.
What is a Lysosome?
These types of cells, meaning "cells that have one set of chromosomes," are produced via meiosis.
What are Haploid Cells?
Finish the phrase: "Very mindful, very cutesy, very _______."
What is "Demure?"