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What are the four basic body tissues?
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Muscle,Connective,Nerve,and Epithelial Tissue.
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M,C,N,ET
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What is a group of similar cells that preform the same function?
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Tissue
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What is a group of differant tissue types that preform the same function called?
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Organ
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What are the connective tissues that hold bones together?
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Ligaments
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Name three purposes of the skeletal system.
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Gives the body shape and support,moves and protects it, and stores minerals.
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S&S M&P Stores M*******
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What is the flexible connective tissue that supports,connects,or cushions other skeletal parts called?
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Cartilage
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What is the tough membrane that surrounds the bone shaft?
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Periosteum
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Peer eo ste um
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What is the purpose of the Haversian canals?
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Their blood vessels bring food and oxygen to living bone cells
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Blood vessels bring______&_____ to _______ ______ ____
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What is the soft yellow or red material inside most bone cavities called?
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Marrow
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The name given to the place where two or more bones meet...
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Joint
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What does the word contract mean?
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Shorten
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What is the only tissue that can contract?
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Muscle Tissue
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What is the name of the connective tissue that connects muscle to bone called?
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Tendons
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What is the name of the muscle that controls movements in the digestive system and circulatory system?
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Smooth Muscles
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Not rough but ______
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What type of muscle makes up the heart?
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Cardiac
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As one muscle contracts, what is the other muscle doing?
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Relaxing
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What is the process of breaking down food into simple substances for use by the body called?
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Digestion
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What is the name of the chemicals that break down food?
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Enzyme
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Name the chemical found in saliva
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Ptyalin
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Saliva breaks down what food?
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Starches and simple sugars
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What is the type of digestion that breaks down food using chemicals?
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Chemical Digestion
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What is the type of digestion that breaks down food without using chemicals?
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Mechanical digestion
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what are the wavelike contractions that move food through the digestive system?
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Peristalsis
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What is the muscular tube that runs from the mouth to the stomach called?
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Esophagus
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Where is gastric juice formed?
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Stomach
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What are the two chemicals in gastric juice?
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Hydrochloric acid,mucus,and pepsin.
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HA&M&P
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What food does gastric juice work to break down?
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Proteins
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What is the substance that protects the stomach from acids?
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Mucus
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Name the organ where most absorbition of nutrients takes place.
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Small Intestine
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small
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What two digestive organs do not come into contact with food?
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Liver and Pancreas
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What are the fingerlike projections that absorb nutrients in the small intestine?
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Villi
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What are two things that are absorbed in the large intestine?
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Water and Vitamins.
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w&v
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What is the name of the wall of tissue that separates the right and left halves of the heart?
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Septum
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What substances are transported by the circulatory system?
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Blood, Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, Food wastes, disease-fighting cells, and chemical messengers.
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B,O,CD,Fw,DFC,CM
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What is the name of the collecting chambers of the heart?
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Right atrium
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What is the name of the pumping chambers of the heart?
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Ventricles
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What prevents the backflow of blood in the circulatory system?
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Valves
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What regulates the contractions of the heart?
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The hearts pacemaker
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What blood vessels carry blood away from the heart?
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Arteries
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What blood vessels carry blood to the heart?
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Veins
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What blood vessels have membranes so small that oxygen and carbon dioxide can pass through them?
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Capillaries
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What is another name for something dealing with the heart?
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Cardiovascular
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Not Pacemaker!
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What is another name for something dealing with the kidneys?
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Execratory
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What is another name for something dealing with the lungs?
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Respiratory
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What is blood made up?
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Plasma
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Which blood cell carries oxygen?
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Red blood cells
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It doesn't fight disease
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Which blood cell carries carbon dioxide?
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White Blood cells
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Which blood cell clots blood?
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Platelets
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Which blood cell searches out and fights invaders?
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White Blood Cells
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Where are blood cells formed?
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Bone Marrow
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What is the grapelike structure in the lung responsible for the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide?
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Alveoli
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What is the name of the flap of tissue that closes over the trachea when you swallow?
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Epiglottis
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What is the male sex cell called?
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Sperm
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What is the female sex cell called?
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Egg or Ovum
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Female sex cells are produced in what organ?
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Ovaries
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Male sex cells are produced in what organ?
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Testes
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How many genes do you receive from each parent?
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23
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What is a fertilized egg called?
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zygote
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What reproductive organ acts as a home for the developing fetus for nine months?
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Uterus
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What is the term used to describe the periodic shedding of the uterus lining?
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Menstruation
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The uterus lining will only shed when this occurs....
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when the egg isn't fertilized
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What are the parts of the central nervous system?
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Brain and Spinal Cord
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What is the name of a nerve cell?
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Nueron
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What part of the nervous system does a reflex signal not pass through?
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Synapse
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What is the light sensitive back layer of the eye called?
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Retina
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What nerve connects to the eye?
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Optic Nerve
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What is the long fiber of a nueron that carries an impulse away from the cell body called?
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Axon
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What lab experience showed us that we process words and colros differently?
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The Stoop Effect
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What is responsible for the "blind spot" in our vision?
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There are no receptors in the area where the optic nerve is attatched to the retina.
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No ********* where ON and R are attatched
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