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This type of science studies what body structures do, rather than what they look like.
What is physiology?
This gas is so important that a person can only live a few minutes without it.
What is oxygen?
This process breaks down food into small nutrient molecules your body can use.
What is digestion?
The two main organs that remove waste from the blood.
What are the liver and the kidneys?
The organ that cleans and processes the blood after digestion.
What is the liver?
Stores DNA and controls the cell.
What is the nucleus?
This simple sugar is the main source of energy for your body’s cells.
What is glucose?
This term refers to the chemical process inside cells that uses oxygen to release energy from glucose.
What is chemical respiration?
Food begins its journey in this part of the body, which starts both mechanical and chemical digestion.
What is the mouth?
The tubes that urine travel from the kidneys to the bladder.
What are the ureters?
What the liver stores in order to give the body sugar when needed.
What is glycogen?
Controls what enters and leaves the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
These nutrients cannot be broken down into sugar molecules but help move material through the digestive system.
What is fiber?
This structure, also called the windpipe, carries air from the throat down toward the lungs.
What is the trachea?
Chewing food is an example of this type of digestion.
What is mechanical digestion?
The name of the muscular organ that stores urine until it is released.
What is the bladder?
The main job of the large intestine.
What is to absorb water and prepare waste to leave the body?
Jelly-like substance that holds organelles.
What is cytoplasm?
This unit measures how much energy food can provide.
What is a calorie?
These tiny air sacs, shaped like clusters of grapes, are where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged.
What are alveoli?
The slippery substance that helps food move down the esophagus smoothly is called this.
What is mucus?
The part of the body also helps excrete waste through skin.
What is sweat?
The organ that makes enzymes that break down starches, proteins, and fats in the small intestine.
What is the pancreas?
Makes proteins.
What are ribosomes?
This nutrient makes up about 65% of your body and is needed for every process your body performs.
What is water?
This structure, also called the voice box, contains the vocal cords that vibrate to make sound.
What is the larynx?
The stomach contains this strong acid, which helps break down proteins and kills harmful bacteria.
What is hydrochloric acid?
This type of fermentation produces lactic acid in your muscles when oxygen is low during intense exercise.
What is lactic acid fermintation?
The tiny finger-like shapes in the small intestine that help absorb nutrients.
What are the villi?
Packages and ships proteins
What is the Golgi apparatus?
This vitamin helps with blood clotting when you get a cut.
What is vitamin K?
This gas enters the blood from the lungs, while this gas leaves the blood to be exhaled.
What are oxygen and carbon dioxide?
The involuntary wave-like muscle contractions that push food through the digestive tract are called this.
What is peristalsis?
During the first stage of cellular respiration, glucose is broken down without oxygen and only a small amount of this energy molecule is produced.
What is ATP?
The organ that stores bile before it goes to the small intestine.
What is the gallbladder?
Breaks down waste and old cell parts.
What are lysosomes?