Cells
The basis unit of all living things, from bacteria to plants to animals to human beings
What is a cell?
Structures composed of specialized tissues designed to perform a specific function in plants and animals.
What are organs?
A collection of similar cells that perform a particular function.
What are tissues?
Covers, shapes and supports the skeletal tissue. It contracts and moves various parts of the body.
Sticky, salty fluid
What is blood?
The dense, active protoplasm found in the center of the cell.
What is a nucleus?
Digests food, along with the intestines.
What is the stomach?
Gives smoothness and contour to the body.
What is adipose tissue?
A group of specialized glands that affect the growth, development, sexual activities, and health of the entire body.
What is the endocrine system?
________________ also known as leukocytes, perform the function of destroying of destroying disease causing germs.
What are white blood cells?
A colorless, jellylike substance in which food elements such as proteins, fats, carbohydrates, mineral salts, and water are present.
What is protoplasm?
Excretes water and waste products.
What are kidneys?
Contracts and moves the various parts of the body
What is muscle tissue?
Consists of the brain, spinal cord, spinal nerves, and cranial nerves.
It controls consciousness and many mental activities, voluntary functions of the five senses (seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, and tasting), and voluntary muscle actions including all body movements and facial expressions.
What is the central nervous system?
A complex iron protein that gives the blood its bright red color.
What is hemoglobin?
The usual process of cell reproduction in human tissues that occurs when the cell divides into two identical cells called daughter cells.
What is mitosis?
Removes waste created by digestion.
What is the liver?
Carries messages to and from the brain and controls and coordinates all bodily functions.
What is nerve tissue?
Made up of the skin and its various accessory organs, such as the oil and sweat glands, sensory receptors, hair and nails.
What is the integumentary system?
Blood is composed of red blood cells, white blood cells, _________________, and platelets.
What is plasma?
A chemical process that takes place in living organisms. Through this process cells are nourished and carry out their activities.
What is metabolism?
Controls the body
What is the brain?
Supports, protects, and binds together other tissues of the body.
What are connective tissues?
The _____________ is often referred to as the body's pump: it is a muscular, cone-shaped organ that keeps the blood moving within the circulatory system.
It is enclosed by a membrane known as the ____________.
What is the heart?
What is the pericardium?
The fluid part of the blood in which the red and white blood cells and platelets flow.
It is about 90 percent water and contains proteins, sugars and oxygen.
What is plasma?