Levels of Organization
The correct order of levels of organization from smallest to largest
What is cell → tissue → organ → organ system → organism?
System primarily responsible for fighting infections
What is the immune system?
The outermost layer of the skin
What is the epidermis?
Term for the end of a long bone
What is the epiphysis?
The universal donor blood type
What is type O-?
The name of the level of organization that consists of similar cells working together
What is a tissue?
Two major sections of the dorsal cavity
What are the cranial and vertebral cavities?
Pigment in the skin protects against UV radiation
What is melanin?
The five functions of the skeletal system
What are support, protection, movement, storage, and blood cell production?
Type of blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart
What are arteries?
Tissue responsible for movement
Name two organs found in the abdominal cavity
What are the stomach and liver?
Two major layers of the dermis
What are the papillary layer and the reticular layer?
The role of osteoclasts in bone remodeling
What is breaking down bone matrix
The function of hemoglobin
What is carrying oxygen in red blood cells?
The meaning of the principle of complementarity
What is structure determines function?
Plane that divides the body into superior and inferior sections.
What is the transverse plane?
Glands in the skin that are responsible for producing sweat
What are sudoriferous glands?
Three types of muscle tissue
What are skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle?
The five types of leukocytes
What are neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, eosinophils, and basophils?
The four major types of tissues in the human body.
What are epithelial, connective, muscle, and nervous tissues?
4 of the 9 regions of the abdominal region
What are right hypochondriac, epigastric, left hypochondriac, right lumbar, umbilical, left lumbar, right iliac, hypogastric, left iliac?
Structure in the skin responsible for fingerprints
What are dermal papillae?
Rigor mortis and why it happens
What is stiffening of muscles after death due to lack of ATP?
The pacemaker of the heart
What is the sinoatrial (SA) node?