Digestive
What is the function (job) of the digestive system?
What is... breaks down food into absorbable molecules in order to transport them throughout the body and use them for energy productio.
What is the function (job) of the excretory system?
How do the digestive and excretory systems work together?
What is ... The digestive system processes food into nutrients for the body and creates waste, while the excretory system removes metabolic wastes and excess substances from the body, including both solid waste from the digestive tract and liquid waste filtered from the blood. They work together to maintain the body's internal balance by providing necessary nutrients and ridding it of harmful byproducts.
What is the function of the vacuole?
What is ... to store waste, nutrients, and water
What is a way our body maintains homeostatsis?
What is ... body temperature, pH balance, water balance, electrolyte balance, etc...
What is the difference between mechanical digestion and chemical digestion?
What is ... mechanical digestion is physically breaking down or grinding food. While chemical digestion is breaking down food through chemical reactions using enzymes or acids.
What is the functional unit of the kidney?
What is ...nephron
How do the digestive and circulatory systems work together?
What is ... The digestive and circulatory systems work closely together to ensure the proper absorption, transport, and utilization of nutrients in the body
What is the function of the endoplasmic reticulum?
What is ... to transport materials around the cell.
What does it mean to respond to stimuli, give an example as well.
What is ... a change in activity after detecting some change in environment. a plant turning towards the sun or moving a hand from heat
What is the process that utilizes muscle contractions to push food down?
What is ... Peristalsis
What are the tubes called that go from the kidneys to the bladder?
What is ... ureter
Microvillus Inclusion Disease is a disease that causes the villi to flatten and hinder their function. What would happen if someone had this disease?
What is ... their villi would not be effective at absorbing nutrients so the individual would not be able to get the proper nutrients from their food leadinf to malnutrition.
What is the function of the nucleus?
What is ... to direct cell activity
Describe how the structure and function are related.
What is... the structure determines the function. Its shape allows it to do its job.
What is the structure in the small intestine and what is its function?
What is ... The structure is villi and it increases surface area for more absorption.
What is the tube called that goes from the bladder to exiting the body?
What is ... the urethra
If someone had nephrons that stopped working, what would happen?
What is... the individual would have a build up of waste as well as an imbalance of homeostasis.
What are the three differences between plant and animal cells?
What are the levels of organization starting at cells?
cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, organisms
What is the liquid mixture of undigested food and acid called?
what is ... chyme
What is the waste that is a result of breaking down proteins?
What is ... urea
Why do we need to break food into smaller pieces or molecules?
What is ... larger pieces or molecules cannot diffuse across the small intestine wall or villi and therefore could not be transported in the blood stream. They would be unusable for energy production.
What would happen if a plant cell had chloroplasts that did not work?
What is ... the plant would have no way to create energy resulting in the plant not performing life functions, dying, and visually becoming less green.
How does the structure of a nephron help its function?
The long folded structure allows for more surface area for more reabsorption.