Definitions
Process where plants use the sun’s energy and chemicals to make food
What is photosynthesis?
master endocrine gland
What is the pituitary?
white blood cells in the Lymph system (includes B-cells and T-cells)
What are lymphocytes?
Blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart
What is an artery?
composed of brain and spinal cord- processes information
Organism that causes disease
What is a pathogen?
process by which an organism breaks down food to be absorbed
What is digestion?
tubes carry products of photosynthesis to leaves and rest of plant
What is phloem?
Glands that produce tears
What is lacrymal?
lymphocytes that create antibodies to attack pathogens (archers making arrows)
What are B cells?
Blood vessel that carries blood away TOWARD the heart
system of nerves that carries information from receptors to CNS (part of peripheral)
What is the sensory nervous system?
Involuntary muscle that causes organs and blood vessels to work
What is smooth muscle?
long digestive organ that delivers food to the stomach
What is the esophagus?
Tube that carries water and minerals from the roots to the rest of the plant
What is Xylem?
gland that produces insulin, which enables glucose to enter the cells
What is pancreas?
clear fluid facilitates exchange of gases and nutrients between cells and blood
What is interstitial fluid
major vessel that carries deoxygenated blood from heart to lungs
What is the pulmonary artery?
system of nerves that carries instructions from the Central Nervous System to skeletal muscles (part of peripheral)
What is somatic system?
organ that filters blood in nephrons
What is the kidney?
digestive organ that produces bile
What is the liver?
warm-blooded animal that regulates its body temperature
What is endothermic?
chemical messenger released into the bloodstream that sends signals to distant cells
What is hormone?
lymphocytes that directly attack pathogens (swordsmen)
What are T cells?
major vessel that carries oxygenated blood from heart to body
What is the aorta?
system of nerves that carries instructions from CNS to body’s smooth muscles, cardiac muscle, and glands (part of periphery)
What is autonomic system?
part of the respiratory system is known as the wind pipe
What is the trachea?
digestive organ absorbs most of the nutrients
What is the small intestine?
cold-blooded animal that cannot regulate its body temperature
What is ectothermic?
gland that produces cortisol, causing liver to release glucose and heart rate to increase
What is adrenal?
white blood cell that scavenges lymph for bacteria and debris
What is a macrophage?
major blood vessel that carries oxygenated blood towards the heart from the lungs
What is pulmonary vein?
main cell of the nervous system (includes dendrites and axons)
What is a neuron?
Organelle that holds most of a cell’s DNA
What is the nucleus
long digestive organ that delivers food to the stomach
What is esophagus?