Cells
Made of 3 fundamental principles: 1. All things have cells. 2. The cell is the basic unit of life. 3. Cells come from other cells.
What is Cell Theory?
This is the type of tissue skin is made of.
What is epithelial tissue?
These are pure substances that cannot be broken down into simpler substances by ordinary chemical means.
What are elements?
The number of organ systems your body contains.
What is 11?
Palms forward is a vital directions for this.
What is anatomical position?
Made of a phospholipid bilayer.
What is the cell membrane?
Flat, thin cells (good for diffusion and filtration)
What is squamous tissue?
About 96% of your body is made of just four elements. What are they?
What are Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen?
This system coordinates and controls everything.
What is the nervous system?
Toward the head.
Makes proteins according to genetic information.
What are ribosomes?
The most diverse and abundant tissue type.
What is connective tissue?
Your body's preferred source of quick energy.
What are carboydrates?
This system send chemical messages to support growth and metabolism?
What is the endocrine system?
Toward the back?
What is posterior?
Gives the cell shape and helps organize organelles.
What is they cytoskeleton?
This is the "stuff" between cells that gives connective tissue its properties.
What is extracellular matrix?
Essential for cellular respiration and part of water.
What is oxygen?
This system metabolizes and absorbs nutrients.
What is the digestive system?
A plane that divides the body into equal left and right sides?
What is sagittal plane?
Breaking down molecules to release energy (like digesting food)
Support, protection, mineral storage, blood cell production are the functions of this tissue.
Essential component of proteins and nucleic acids.
The total of all muscles in the body?
Divides the body into upper (superior) and lower (inferior) parts
What is transverse/horizontal plane?