Is it ORGAN-ic?
This organ is about the size of your fist and pumps blood throughout your body.
What is the heart?
After leaving the stomach, partially digested food moves into the first of 3 segments of this organ?
What is the small intestine (duodenum)?
These cells are part of the immune system and help fight infection.
What are white blood cells?
This molecule forms a double helix and contains the instructions for building proteins and determining inherited traits.
What is DNA?
These organs in the chest supply the body with oxygen and removes carbon dioxide from the body.
What are the lungs?
When a person swallows, this flap or cartilage folds backward to cover the entrance to the larynx so food and liquid do not enter the lung.
What is the epiglottis?
These cells carry oxygen from the lungs and to the body's tissues and organs and give blood its RED color.
What are red blood cells?
This structure inside the nucleus contains tightly packed DNA and genes.
What is a chromosome?
A large organ located in the upper abdomen that cleanses the blood and aids in digestion by secreting bile.
What is the liver?
A bitter greenish-brown fluid that aids in digestion and is secreted by the liver and stores in the gallbladder.
What is bile?
These cell fragments help stop bleeding by forming clots.
What are platelets?
A person with brown eyes can have a child with blue eyes if they carry this hidden type of allele.
What is a recessive allele?
This organ has a dual role. It produces enzymes that aid in digestion and produces insulin, which helps to control blood sugar levels.
What is the pancreas?
The longest section of your digestive tract is the large intestine, which on average measures this length.
What is 22 feet? (will allow answers give or take 5 feet)?
Blood cells (red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets) are produced in what organ (or part of the body)?
What is the bone marrow?
The entire collection of DNA (genetic material) in an organism, dictating how it will function, grow and develop.
What is a genome?