General Biology
Basic unit of life
Transports oxygen and nutrients throughout the body
What is the circulatory system?
What is the function of muscle tissue?
What is allowing movement?
Controls what enters and leaves the cell
What is the main function of the cell membrane?
First scientist to observe cells (coined the term cells)
Who is Robert Hooke
The study of life
What is Biology?
Network of glands that produce and release hormones
What is the endocrine system?
Tissue that is a protective layer of organs and body surfaces.
What is the epithelial tissue?
Organelle that packages and modifies proteins in the cell
What is Golgi apparatus?
Absence of a nucleus on a prokaryotic cell.
What is a key feature that distinguishes prokaryotic cell from eukaryotic cells?
Term that describes organisms that produce their own food from sunlight.
Organ system which coordinates body responses to change.
What is the nervous system?
Provides structure and supports movement
What is the skeletal system?
What is cytoplasm?
Maintaining stable internal conditions
Organism that obtain energy by consuming other organisms.
What is heterotroph?
System that produces hormones to regulate body function.
What is the endocrine system?
Breaks down food into smaller components
What is the digestive system
Organelle which stores water, nutrients, and sometimes waste.
What is the vacuole?
The theory which explains that cells begat (cells are created from preexisting cells) cells.
What is the Cell Theory?
Study of living organisms and their interactions
What is Biology
Organ system which filters blood to remove waste from the body.
What is the Urinary System?
Purpose of organ system interaction with each other.
What is support life in living organisms
Communication between cells is this type of signal.
What is a chemical signal?
Cells, Tissues, Organs, Organ system (hierarchical order)
What is the correct order of organization from cells to organ systems?