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This is the type of cell that carries oxygen in your blood.
Red blood cells
This body system involves the breakdown of nutrients from food
Digestive
This part of the nervous system includes just the brain and spinal cord.
Central nervous system
This type of nutrient includes saturated and unsaturated types, and is used for long term energy storage.
Fats
This type of blood vessel carries blood towards the heart.
Veins
This type of cell is used to fight off bacteria and viruses
white blood cells
This body system includes the hair, skin, and nails
Integumentary
Signals of the nervous system are _____ signals.
Electrical
This organ contains hydrochloric acid to break down food.
Stomach
These tiny blood vessels connect veins and arteries.
Capillaries
This is another name for a nerve cell
neuron
This system involves ridding the body of wastes, and includes the kidneys and bladder
Excretory
This part of the nervous system includes all the nerves that extend throughout the body.
Peripheral Nervous system
This nutrient type is made of smaller units called amino acids, and is primarily used for cell growth and repair.
Proteins
This is the gap or junction between two nerve cells.
Synapse
This is a component of the blood that helps with clotting wounds.
Platelets
This system is responsible for transporting oxygen, nutrients, and waste products throughout your body.
Circulatory
This type of neuron receives signals from stimuli inside and outside of the body.
Sensory neurons
This nutrient includes some types that your body can produce, while others must be taken in with your food, and is used for chemical processes in cells.
Vitamins
Blood leaves the heart to go back to the lungs through this vessel.
Pulmonary artery
These tiny spherical structures in the lungs are the location of gas exchange.
Alveoli
This system uses chemical messengers called hormones to control body processes.
Endocrine
This segment of the nervous system controls functions of the body that are involuntary, such as breathing and blinking.
Autonomic
This organ produces bile.
Liver
The brain is made up of only this type of neuron, which also connect the other two types.
Interneurons