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21 Cards in this Set
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Cells |
are the smallest basic building blocks of life |
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Tissue |
Groups of cells that preform the same functions |
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Organs |
Groups of tissues that preform the same function |
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Systems |
Group of organs that preform the same functions |
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Digestive system |
Breaks down food and processes solid waste |
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Teeth |
Helps break down food to digest |
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Tongue |
A sense organ that pushes food to the back of your mouth to swallow |
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Esophagus |
A stretchy tube that squeezes and pushes food to the stomach |
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Stomach |
Expands to hold food |
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Small intestine |
Narrow tube coiled up below your belly button |
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Villi |
Finger like threads that reach out and soak up nutrients and water |
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Absorb |
Soak up |
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Large intestine |
Solidwaste ends up here |
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!iver |
Filters or cleans any left over waste out of the blood |
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Appendix |
Finger shaped organ that is located where the small intestine widens into the large intestine |
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Excretory system |
Processes liquid waste (urine) |
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Kidneys |
Filters liquid waste from the blood |
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Ureters |
Two tubes that drain into the urinary bladder |
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Urinary bladder |
Muscle that stores urine |
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Urethera |
Tube the urine passes out of the body to |
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anton van leeuwenhoek |
First person to describe bacteria |
