CELLS
The smallest (living) organism in the human body
What is a cell?
Tissue composition
What is a group of specialized cells?
The organ responsible for controlling many of the body's responses
What is the brain?
This system moves blood and bodily fluids throughout the body
What is the cardiovascular system?
the term for the net processes of cell activity
What is metabolism?
The brain of the cell
What is the nucleus?
Types of tissues
What are the nervous, connective, muscular, and epithelial tissues?
This organ is responsible for maintaining blood glucose levels
What is the pancreas?
This system is initiates once we put food in our mouths
What is the digestive system?
The process of metabolic breakdown
What is catabolism?
The cell's powerplant
What is the mitochondria?
This tissue relays electrical impulses to various parts of the body
What is nervous tissue?
This organ maintains water balance, sodium levels, and red blood cell production
What are the kidneys?
This system serves as our structural framework
What is the skeletal system?
The process of cell building
What is anabolism?
Golgi apparatus
What is responsible for packaging proteins and lipids?
This tissue anchors different structures to one another
What is connective tissue?
This organ regulates oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in the blood
What are the lungs?
This system regulates many processes in our bodies and has a master
What is the endocrine system?
A hormone responsible for facial and body hair growth as well as deepening of the voice
What is testosterone?
The gel of the cell
What is cytoplasm?
This tissue is responsible for movement of substances and is a facilitator of many actions
What is muscular tissue?
This organ is the removes toxins and synthesizes proteins
What is the liver?
Name five systems open to air
What are the respiratory, digestive, urinary, reproductive, and integumentary systems?
A hormone that increases the metabolic rate
What are thyroid hormones?