Organized Components in the Living System
This is the lowest level of organization.
What is a cell?
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A cancerous skin cell is typically called this.
What is melanoma?
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This type of tumor is benign and does not spread easily.
What is benign?
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1 in 5 Americans will develop this type of cancer.
What is skin cancer?
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This is the human body's largest organ.
What is skin?
This is the correct order of organism components.
What is cell, tissue, organ, organ system, and organism?
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This is called a type of cell that lines the lungs and breast, for example.
What is an epithelial cell?
This is how we might define malignant tumor.
What is, Malignant tumors are cancerous and can grow into nearby tissue and spread to other parts of the body?
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These are two visual differences between cancerous and non-cancerous cells.
Cancerous cells are misshapen instead of uniform (for non-cancerous), and cancerous cells grow clumped together by overcrowding their area, instead of evenly spaced growth for non-cancerous cells.
The iPhone was first released in this year.
What is 2007?
Cells keep us healthy in this way.
What is, cells help turn food and oxygen into energy to heal our wounds and keep us well?
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Abnormal leukocytes crowd out healthy blood cells impairing their ability to function properly.
What is blood cancer?
This happens when a tumor metastasizes.
What breaks off parts into the bloodstream that release evil enzymes?
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Cancer cells can do this to neighboring cells.
What is push on neighboring cells and disrupt normal cell function?
This is the smallest planet in our solar system.
What is Mercury?
Cells form together to create this component in a living system.
What is a tissue?
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These can appear as new, unusual growths or changes in appearance of moles.
What are melanomas?
This is when a malignant tumor has left its original place and is spreading to other parts of your body.
What is metastasis?
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This happens when lung cancer makes people sick.
How does cancer make the tissue of the lungs more rigid so they can’t expand all the way so your cells can replace the carbon dioxide in your blood with oxygen?
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Sharks have this number of bones.
What is zero?
These are the organs in the respiratory system.
What are mouth, nose, larynx (voice box), pharynx (throat), trachea (windpipe), bronchi (lung airways), diaphragm and lungs?
This type of cell in our Cells Images appears dark purple because of the large nucleus (the portion of the cell that contains DNA).
What is a lung cancer cell? (Also accepting: What is a breast cancer cell?)
This is called when changed cells grow clumped together in an abnormal mass.
When changed cells grow together in a mass tumors form.
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This is how cancer can make people feel sick.
What is cancer cells robbing nearby healthy cells of their nutrients so they can’t function properly and cause your body to shut down?
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This is the name for the solar event that occurs each year on March 20th or 21st.
What is the Vernal Equinox?