Anatomy
atom > molecule > cell > tissue > organs > organ systems > organism
What is the hierarchy of the body?
The structure of an organ, like muscle, dictates its purpose within the body, like movement.
What is form determines function?
The maintenance of a relatively stable internal environment even with external environmental changes.
What is homeostasis?
A large fluid-filled compartment that stores water and nutrients in a plant cell.
Use internally generated heat from metabolic heat production and are independent of the environmental temperature.
What is an endotherm?
What is connective tissue?
*Bonus if you can answer what the four types of connective tissues are.*
The study of how physical structures of the body work.
What is physiology?
A genetically determined state of normality where homeostasis returns the internal state.
What is a set point?
An organelle that contains a green pigment called chlorophyll and absorbs light energy.
What is a chloroplast?
Two physiological adaptations the human body uses to conserve or produce heat.
What is vasoconstriction and shivering?
The body system that provides protection and includes the skin, hair and fat organs.
What is the integumentary system?
The control of internal water volume, pressure and solute concentrations.
What is osmoregulation?
A response by the body that increases the stimulus.
What is a positive feedback loop?
What is turgor pressure?
Causes low blood volume and low blood pressure along with high osmolarity.
What is dehydration?
These are the main types of plant organs.
What are roots, stems and leaves?
A chemical signaling molecule released by a cell or gland and travels through the bloodstream to exert an effect on a target cell.
What is a hormone?
A response by the body that decreases the stimulus.
A food storing organ that is part of the embryonic seedling.
What is a cotyledon?
*Bonus if you can describe the characteristics of monocots and dicots.*
Bone marrow is a part of what organ system?
What is the lymphatic system?
A complex matrix of bony structures in the nasal cavity.
What are terbinates?
A circuit of sensing and responding. It is the process that monitors and adjusts the internal environment.
What is the homeostatic pathway?
Stimulus > sensor > control > effector
A role in the homeostatic pathway, where a cell or tissue that responds to the information it receives.
What is an effector?
Two types of cells that make up the ground tissue of a leaf.
What is Palisade mesophyll and spongy mesophyll?
When blood glucose levels drop, cells in the pancreas release this into the blood to signal cells in the muscles and liver to convert glycogen into glucose.
What is glucagon?
*Bonus for naming this kind of feedback loop.*