Digestive System
The part of the digestive tract that comes after the stomach.
What is the small intestine?
This muscular organ pumps blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
This organelle contains the genetic material (DNA).
What is the nucleus?
This level of organization is made up of tissues and perform specific functions.
What is organs?
What is chemical digestion?
This type of blood vessel carries oxygenated blood away from the heart.
What is an artery?
This organelle is exclusive to plants cells and surrounds the cell membrane.
What is the cell wall?
This type of tumour can spread to other parts of the body.
What is malignant?
This small organ stores bile and secretes it into the digestive tract.
What is the gallbladder?
This blood vessel type is the smallest and can be as little as 1 cell thick.
What are capillaries?
What is cell division?
This plant cell type is undifferentiated and can be found at the ends of roots and stems.
What is meristematic?
These specialized structures increase the surface area of the small intestine to maximize absorption.
What is intestinal villi?
Red blood cells carry these gases throughout the body.
What are oxygen and carbon dioxide?
This organelle can be found attached to the endoplasmic reticulum and is responsible for making proteins.
What is a ribosome?
This is the process of programmed cell death.
What is apoptosis?
This hormone is needed to transport glucose into cells.
What is insulin?
This component makes up less than 1% of blood volume and is responsible for clotting.
What is platelets?
The process by which water molecules diffuse from high to low concentration.
What is osmosis?
This line across the center of the cell is where the chromosomes line up during metaphase.
What is the equator?