Unit 1
This type of cell does not contain mitochondria
What are prokaryotes?
These cells make up heart muscle and contract without brain control.
What are cardiac muscle cells?
This process needs a difference in pressure to allow movement of nutrients and wastes across the capillary walls.
What is bulk flow?
This organ produces chyme?
What is the stomach?
This molecule makes the cell membrane selectively permeable.
What is the phospholipid?
This type of bones are found in the wrists and ankles.
What are short bones?
This blood vessel takes blood away from the left lung and back to the left atrium.
This endocrine gland releases TSH and ADH.
What is the pituitary gland?
This process makes bones grow longer.
What is endochondrial ossification?
This step of the scientific method requires comparing the hypothesis' prediction to the data.
What is the conclusion?
This part of the brain controls motor function on the left side of the body.
What is the right parietal lobe?
This term describes the creation of memory cells and plasma cells after an antigen is recognized.
What is clonal selection?
This is where water and vitamins are absorbed in the gastrointestinal tract.
What is the large intestine?
This structure in the heart controls muscle contraction of the whole heart.
What is the SA node (pacemaker)?
This tissue type is responsible for secreting hormones.
Calcium ions are released by this organelle in muscle cells.
What is the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR)?
This hormone starts the inflammatory response.
These hormones stimulate the production of sperm cells and ovulation of egg cells.
What are FSH and LH?
This hormone decreases water in the urine.
What is ADH?
These are the tissues found inside of every organ.
What are epithelial, connective, muscle, and nervous?
Which part of the nervous system controls the fight or flight response?
These five cell types make up the white blood cells.
What are basophils, eosinophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, and neutrophils?
This medical measurement is used to determine if a person is underweight, normal weight, or overweight.
What is BMI?
This principle maintains balance between different organs inside the body to keep us alive.
What is homeostasis?