Pellagra
This food was once thought to be the cause of Pellagra.
What is corn?
The small unit that makes up all living organisms.
What is a cell?
This organ is where nutrients from food are absorbed into our body.
What is the small intestine?
These start the process of mechanical digestion.
What are teeth?
This is the percent of car accidents caused by impaired drivers.
This person studied Pellagra and eventually figured out what was causing the disease.
Who is Dr. Goldberger?
To make a conclusion based up known facts.
What is an inferernce?
This organ is a stretchy muscular sack that holds and churns our food.
What is the stomach?
This is a sore in the lining of our stomach.
What is an ulcer?
This is the average weight of a human liver.
What is 3 pounds?
These two groups of people were experimented on during the Pellagra breakout.
Who were orphans and prisoners?
A group of organs that work together to perform a specific function.
What is an organ system?
This organ is often called "the food tube."
What is the esophagus?
This transports nutrients from our food to all parts of our body.
What is blood?
This organ can regenerate.
What is the liver?
Pellagra broke out in early 1900 in this region of the country.
What is The South?
Any description or measurement made by using the senses or tools.
What is observation?
This organ acts like a pump and works every minute of our life.
What is the heart?
This is another name for the large intestine.
What is the colon?
This is any substance that can cause damage to your body.
What is a toxin?
This was the actual cause of Pellagra.
Not enough vitamin B (Niacin) in peoples' diets.
The levels of structure in an organism.
What is levels of organization?
This organ breaks down toxins, digests fats and regulates cholesterol and sugar in our blood.
What is the liver?
This is the cause of the odor in our solid waste.
What is bacteria?
If a mother drinks alcohol while pregnant, this can happen.
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?