General Vocabulary
The fundamental unit of all living things
What is a cell?
Transports oxygen and nutrients to and from cells/tissues and removes waste products.
What is the cardiovascular/circulatory system?
Contains the brain
What is the cranial cavity?
What is the ureter?
Provides the principal source of energy for the cell
What is the mitochondria?
A group of organs that all work together to perform complex functions
What is a system?
Digests food into smaller molecules and absorb nutrients. Removes undigestible food from body (feces).
What is the digestive system?
Contains stomach, small and large intestines, spleen, pancreas, liver, gall bladder
What is the abdominal cavity?
What is the larynx?
A network of canals within the cell where protein synthesis takes place
What is the endoplasmic reticulum?
A group of similar cells working together to do a specific job.
What are tissues?
Removes waste products from cellular metabolism(urea,water,CO2).
What is the excretory/urinary system.
Inside of the thoracic cavity, it lubricates the lungs and makes it easy for them to slide over each other during lung inflation and deflation
What is the pleural cavity?
The organ where the fetus/embryo develops
What is the uterus?
Contains all the material outside of the nucleus and is enclosed by the cell membrane
What is cytoplasm?
Tissues combine to form this
What is an organ?
Allows for movement by contracting
What is the muscular system?
A thin, two-layered membrane that lines the abdominal cavity and covers most of the abdominal organs, also provides lubrication.
What is the peritoneum?
Endocrine gland at the base of the brain
What is the pituitary gland?
Small molecules are assembled into large ones, energy is required
What is anabolism?
A type of genetic test that analyzes the size, shape, and number of chromosomes in a sample of cells taken from blood, amniotic fluid, bone marrow, or other tissue.
What is karyotyping?
Regulates body activities using hormones
What is the endocrine system?
Separates the abdominal and thoracic cavities.
What is the diaphragm?
Internal Organs
What is viscera?
The total of the chemical processes occurring within a cell
What is metabolism?