Cell Structure
What is the powerhouse of the cell?
What is the mitochondria?
What is the movement of water through a membrane called?
This structure begins mechanical and chemical digestion.
What is the mouth?
What is the liquid portion of blood?
What is plasma?
What are X-rays most often used to visualize?
What are bones?
Which organelle contains the cell's DNA?
What is the nucleus?
In general, more surface area allows for more _____________ to occur.
What is diffusion?
The muscular tube that links the mouth to the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
Where does gas exchange occur?
What are the alveoli?
Which medical imaging technology looks at metabolic activity?
What is a PET scan?
What type of vesicle store nutrients, water and other chemicals?
What is a disadvantage of a larger sized cell?
What is needing more energy from mitochondria to function?
Absorption of nutrients occurs here.
What is the small intestine?
What is the muscle that contracts and relaxes, allowing breathing to occur?
What is the diaphragm?
Which medical imaging technology is used to view soft tissues?
What is an ultrasound?
Which membrane does a plant cell contain, but not an animal cell?
What is the cell wall?
Particles diffuse from areas of _______ concentration to areas of _______ concentration.
What are high and low?
The wavelike contractions that move food along the digestive tract.
What is peristalsis?
What is the main artery that the left ventricle contracts blood into?
What is the aorta?
Which medical imaging technology is used to view cells?
What is microscopy?
What is the chloroplast?
What is the key difference between diffusion and facilitated diffusion?
What are carrier proteins?
What type of enzymes does the mouth contain?
What are salivary amylases?
Blood returns from the lungs and enters the heart into which chamber?
What is the left atrium?
Which medical imaging technology prohibits metal in the room?
What is an MRI scan?