Levels of Organization
The smallest unit of life.
What is a cell
The part of the cell contains the genetic material.
What is the nucleus?
T or F: Only plant cells contain vacuoles.
False, both plant and animal cells contain vacuoles. Plant cells contain one large vacuole and animal cells usually contain several smaller vacuoles.
A type of diffusion that involves water.
What is osmosis?
T or F: All compound microscopes include a mirror within the body tube.
False.
Name the four levels of organization in the human body from smallest to largest.
What are cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems?
The cell organelle that is responsible for producing energy.
What is the mitochondrion?
A cellular structure only found in animal cells.
What are lysosomes or what are centrioles?
Name the organ that is part of the respiratory system and is responsible for gas exchange.
What are the lungs?
A type of microscope that uses lenses to magnify and focus an image.
What is a light microscope?
True or False: An organ system is made up of different tissues working together.
What is false? (An organ system is made up of different organs working together.)
The function of the cell membrane.
What is to control what enters and exits the cell?
This type of cell usually has a rigid exterior/perimeter.
What is a plant cell?
The organ in the digestive system that breaks down food with enzymes and acid.
What is the stomach?
A type of microscope that uses beams of subatomic particles to scan specimen surfaces.
What is an electron microscope?
Arrange the following from simplest to most complex: Organ, Cell, Organ System, Tissue.
What is Cell, Tissue, Organ, Organ System?
The jelly-like substance inside the cell called.
What is cytoplasm?
The tissue type that is responsible for movement.
What is muscle tissue?
This organ is part of the nervous system and controls most functions of the body and mind.
What is the brain?
Describe the interaction between the nervous system and the muscular system.
The nervous system sends signals to muscles to contract and produce movement.
What level of organization directly follows tissues?
What are organs?
Name the organelle that is the site of protein synthesis.
What is the ribosome?
The tissue type that transmits electrical impulses.
What is nervous tissue?
The largest organ in the body and is part of the integumentary system.
What is the skin?
In a microscopic image, the higher this is, the more clearly one can distinguish details in the image
What is resolution?