Organ Systems A
Organ Systems B
Tissues
Organs and Other Parts A
Organs and Other Parts B
100
This organ system is involved in food processing, including ingestion, digestion, absorption, and elimination.
What is the digestive system?
100
This organ system is responsible for the internal distribution of materials.
What is the circulatory system?
100
This type of tissue covers the outside of the body and lines organs and cavities within the body.
What is epithelial tissue?
100
This organ is located just below the diaphragm. It stores food and continues the process of digestion.
What is the stomach?
100
This organ is made mostly of muscle. It contracts and relaxes in a rhythmic cycle to pump blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
200
This organ system is responsible for gas exchange, including uptake of oxygen, and disposal of carbon dioxide.
What is the respiratory system?
200
This organ system is responsible for reproduction.
What is the reproductive system?
200
This type of tissue is responsible for nearly all types of body movement.
What is muscle tissue?
200
This organ is a respiratory organ which is an infolded body surface, typically subdivided into numerous pockets.
What is the lung?
200
This organ connects the mouth to the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
300
This organ system is responsible for defending the body, including fighting infections and cancers.
What is the immune and lymphatic system?
300
This organ system is responsible for the disposal of metabolic wastes and regulation of osmotic blood.
What is the excretory system?
300
This type of tissue senses stimuli and transmits signals in the form of nerve impulses from one part of the animal to another.
What is nervous tissue?
300
This organ functions in osmoregulation and excretion.
What is the kidney?
300
This is a sheet of muscle that forms at the bottom of the thoracic cavity. It pulls air into the lungs when it contracts.
What is the diaphragm?
400
This organ system is responsible for the coordination of body activities, detection of stimuli, and formulation of responses to them.
What is the nervous system?
400
This organ system is responsible for body support, protection of internal organs, and movement.
What is the skeletal system?
400
This type of tissue binds and supports other tissues in the body.
What is connective tissue?
400
This organ functions in digestion by secreting digestive enzymes and functions in homeostasis by secreting insulin and glucagon.
What is the pancreas?
400
This is an endocrine gland located at the base of the hypothalamus which stores and releases hormones that regulate body function.
What is the pituitary gland?
500
This organ system is responsible for protection against mechanical injury, infection, drying out, and thermoregulation.
What is the integumentary system?
500
This organ system is responsible for coordination of body activities, such as digestion and metabolism.
What is the endocrine system?
500
This type of connective tissue functions differently from other connective tissues. It consists of water, salts, and dissolved proteins.
What is blood?
500
Urine is expelled through this tube from the bladder.
What is the urethra?
500
This organ is the principal site of the enzymatic hydrolysis of food macromolecules and the absorption of nutrients.
What is the small intestine?
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