This is the number of structural levels that the body can be studied at.
What is six?
100
This is the existence and maintenance of a relatively constant environment within the body.
What is homeostasis?
100
These are the two sides of body cavities.
What are ventral and dorsal?
100
The abdomen is often divided superficially into this many quadrants by two imaginary lines.
What is four?
100
This is the scientific discipline that investigates the structure of the body.
What is anatomy?
200
This is the largest level of organization.
What is an organism?
200
These conditions in homeostasis can have their values change at any time.
What are variables?
200
This type of membrane lines the trunk cavities and covers the organs in these cavities.
What is serous?
200
This region of the body consists of the head, neck, and trunk.
What is the central region?
200
This is the number of organ systems in the human body.
What is eleven?
300
This is composed of two or more tissue types that together perform one or more common functions.
What is an organ?
300
In this mechanism, any deviation from the set point is made greater before returning to normal.
What is positive feedback?
300
This is the name for a membrane lining the heart.
What is parietal pericardium?
300
The abdomen is sometimes subdivided into this many regions by four imaginary lines.
What is nine?
300
These are the six characteristics of life.
What are organization, metabolism, responsiveness, growth, development, and reproduction?
400
Name the levels of organization from smallest to largest.
What is chemical, cell, tissue, organ, organ system, and organism?
400
This is an ideal normal value that homeostatic mechanisms normally maintain.
What is a set point?
400
These consist of two layers of peritoneum fused together, and they connect the visceral peritoneum of some abdominopelvic organs to the parietal peritoneum on the body wall or to the visceral peritoneum of other abdominopelvic organs.
What are messenteries?
400
This is the scientific name for the back of the neck.
What is nuchal?
400
This is the region directly below your belly button.
What is the hypogastric region?
500
Molecules can combine to form these, which are the small structures that make up cells.
What are organelles?
500
These are the three components of many negative feedback mechanisms.
What are receptor, control center, and effector?
500
These are the three types of inflammations of serous membranes.
What are pericarditis, peritonitis, and pleurisy?
500
This is the scientific name for the elbow.
What is cubital?
500
This divides the thoracic cavity into left and right parts, and contains the heart, thymus, trachea, and esophagus.