Transport
The movement of molecules from high concentration to low concentration
What is simple diffusion?
The liquid in which a solute dissolves
What is a solvent?
Describes when there is more solute inside a cell than outside
What is hypotonic?
This is the name of the body system that creates chemical messengers called hormones
What is the endocrine system?
The name for the non-specific line of defense that the immune system has
What is innate immunity?
The body system that is responsible for the transport of nutrients, water, and gases to all cells
What is the circulatory system?
Salt, sugar, and electrolytes can be described as this word
What is a solute?
There is no net movement of water into or out of the cell
What is isotonic?
At each level of organization, new properties or behaviors show up
An example of a primary defense against pathogens
What is skin, sebaceous glands, or mucus?
When water is turned into a gas, causing it to escape the leaves of plants
What is evaporation?
The movement of water through the cell depending on the concentration solutes
What is osmosis?
The movement of water out of a cell, which can cause it to shrivel up
What is hypertonic?
An example of an emergent property of the stomach
What is digestion / breaking down food?
A type of phagocytic white blood cell that activates the adaptive immune response by placing a part of the pathogen on its cell membrane
What is a macrophage?
What is transpiration?
This phrase is used to describe when a solution has a relatively high amount of solute
What is high osmolarity?
A red blood cell is submerged into pure water. This word describes the solution the cell is submerged in
What is hypotonic?
This is a type of cell that is part of the nervous system, transferring signals in the spinal cord and the brain
What is a neuron?
The type of cell that creates a "memory" of pathogens, allowing the body to better fight them in the future
What is the B-cell?
The name of the vessel water moves through in plants
What is the xylem?
The direction water moves when a cell is submerged in a high osmolarity solution
What is outside of the cell?
Describes the conditions needed in human blood plasma and tissues to prevent bursting or shrinkage of important tissue cells
What is isotonic?
The part of the pain reflex arc that causes the response of the reflex
What is the effector muscle?
The two functions of the helper T-cell
What destroys infected body cells and activates other cells in the immune system?