Vocabulary
This is the smallest unit of life.
What is a cell?
These are three of M'Kenna's symptoms.
What are:
Nausea, vomiting, brain fog, diarrhea, abdominal cramps, weight loss, fatigue, muscle cramps, rapid heartbeat with exercise, difficulty breathing with exercise?
The digestive system has these 3 functions.
What is break down food, absorb nutrients, eliminate waste?
This organ performs a chemical reaction to break starch into glucose.
What is the mouth?
Complex carbohydrates like starch are broken down into this molecule.
What is glucose?
This is a collection of cells that work together to perform a function.
What is tissue?
This organ was not working properly in M'Kenna.
What is the small intestine?
The respiratory system has these 2 functions.
What is inhale O2 and exhale CO2?
This organ performs chemical reactions to break starch into glucose, protein into amino acids, and fat into fatty acids.
What is the stomach?
Fats are broken down into this molecule.
What are fatty acids?
This is a combination of two or more tissues working together to perform a specific function.
What is an organ?
This tissue was damaged in M'Kenna.
What are the villi?
The circulatory (blood) system has at least these 3 functions.
What is carry oxygen to cells?
What is carry glucose/food molecules/nutrients to cells?
What is carry CO2 away from cells?
The small intestine has this tissue that helps to absorb nutrients by increasing surface area.
What are villi?
Proteins are broken down into this molecule.
What are amino acids?
This reaction between glucose and oxygen (O2) takes place in this location.
What are cells?
M'Kenna was having trouble absorbing this food molecule.
What is glucose?
This is an example of a subsystem.
What is digestive/circulatory/respiratory system?
These body subsystems are contained within the larger system: the body.
The lungs have this tissue that exchanges gas with the bloodstream.
What are alveoli?
This food molecule does not get broken down.
What is fiber?
This reaction between glucose and oxygen (O2) releases energy to be used in the body.
What is cellular respiration?
M'Kenna was losing weight because her body was burning this for energy instead of glucose.
What is fat?
The circulatory, respiratory, and digestive system work together to perform this reaction that is necessary for life.
What is cellular respiration?
O2 + glucose --> CO2 + H2O + energy
This digestive organ is used for transport only, and breaks nothing down.
What is the esophagus?
Glucose molecules are made of these 3 types of atoms.
What are carbon (C), hydrogen (H), and oxygen (O)?