Living Organisms
What are the characteristics of living things?
Use energy, respond to stimuli, reproduce, grow/develop, produce waste, made of cells, adapt
Which power level should you use when first viewing a specimen under a microscope?
Low power (40x magnification)
Having one cell
Unicellular
This system protects you from dirt bacteria and viruses
Skin (integumentary) system
What is the job of the excretory system?
Groups of similar cells
Tissues
Where should your hands be when carrying a microscope?
Arm and base
Is the powerhouse of the cell and makes ATP (energy)
Mitocondria
cells that sends and receives signals from outside stimulus but do not control movement
Sensory Nurons
Transports nutrients and oxygen to all parts of the body
circulatory system
Groups of tissues working together
Organs
The part of the microscope that you look through.
Eyepiece or Ocular Lens
Holds the genetic material and is the control center of the cell
Nucleus
The system that is responsible for moving the body
Muscular system
A person has the ability to see, hear taste, smell, and feel, but they are not able to control their muscles. What type of neuron might they have a problem with?
Motor neurons
The basic unit of all life
Cells
Plant cells have this, animal cells do not
What are chloroplasts and cell walls?
These are like the manufacturing factories of cells
Ribosomes
The skeletal system
This is the name for a nervous response that does not involve the brain. It happens faster than our ability to process information.
Reflex response
Organism made of many different types of cells that do different jobs
Multicellular organism
What are the 3 keys points of Cell Theory?
All living things are composed of one or more cells
Cells are the basic unit of structure and function in all organism
All cells come from other cells
When waste products have a high concentration in the cytoplasm of a cell and a low concentration outside the cell, they can leave the cell by
Diffusion
Name all four components that make up human blood
Plasma, Platelets, White and Red Blood cells
Describe how two different systems work together to help someone go on a walk
Circulatory These systems could all work
muscular
skeletal
nervous