Human Biology (A)
What is the name of our internal framework that consists of 206 bones, cartilage, and ligaments?
What is our skeleton?
This organ system is divided into two distinct systems depending on the gender.
What is the reproductive system?
This system has two different names.
What is the cardiovascular or circulatory system?
This organ system protects our body from worms, germs, and other agents of harm.
What is the immune system?
This is the organization of the human body from the smallest component to the largest component.
What are cells, tissue, organ, organ system, and organism?
______ are infections and tumors that take advantage of the opportunity presented by a weak immune system.
What are opportunistic diseases?
The muscular system is composed of these three types of cells.
What are cardiac, smooth, and skeletal muscles?
These are the five sense organs we use on a daily basis.
What are the eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and skin?
This is the name of the process in which organ systems work together to maintain a stable internal environment.
What is homeostasis?
The ______ is composed of our extremities and the ______ is composed of our core.
What is the appendicular skeleton and the axial skeleton?
These STIs can be cured using antibiotics, while there is no cure for these types of STIs.
What are bacterial STIs and viral STIs?
This organ system uses muscle contractions to allow us to move.
What is the muscular system?
The integumentary contains keratin-filled nails in these three objects.
What are the skin, hair, and nails?
This organ system is tasked with producing sperm and releasing testosterone.
What is the male reproductive system?
The ________ brings air containing oxygen into the body and releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
What is the respiratory system?
This organ system is split into the CNS and the PNS whose jobs are to carry electrical messages throughout the body.
What is the nervous system?
Females have _____ chromosomes and males have _____ chromosomes.
What are XX and XY?
HIV, AIDS, STI, and STD are acronyms for these.
What is human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, sexually transmitted infection, sexually transmitted disease?
Although they have similar functions, these two organ systems have different organs to help them carry out these functions.
What are the excretory and urinary systems?
Blood in ____ carry oxygen and nutrients to the cells, while blood in ____ carry carbon dioxide and other wastes to be excreted.
What are arteries and veins?
This organ system produces the leukocytes and the lymphocytes that are used by the immune system.
What is the lymphatic system?
Mechanical and chemical are the two divisions of this organ system.
What is the digestive system?
These are the names of the organ systems found in the human body.
What are the skeletal, muscular, integumentary, nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular (circulatory), respiratory, digestive, excretory, urinary, immune, lymphatic, and reproductive systems?
This organ system has functions such as the production of eggs, secretion of estrogen, and receiving sperm during sexual intercourse.
What is the female reproductive system?
The hypothalamus, pituitary gland, thyroid, parathyroid, pineal glands, gonads, pancreas, and adrenal glands make up this organ system.
What is the endocrine system?