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Name a chemical they used to keep the bodies from rotting and decaying…

A

Salt

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The Egyptians believe that a person needed his or her body to get to heaven so they……

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Dried the bodies and turn them into mummies

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Egyptians remove most of the organs but what organ did they leave?

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The heart

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Why did the Egyptians think you needed your heart in death?

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It would help you get to heaven depending on how much it weighed against a feather

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The Egyptians ability to what showed how far they were in their understanding of anatomy?

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Ability to dissect and preserved bodies

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They believed ___ performed by their gods made them sick and made the body function the way it did

A

Magic

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The ancient Hebrews were also called ____ and _____

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Israelites and gods chosen people

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God gave the Israelites ____ to protect them from tiny things called ____

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Laws & germs

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An organism is a ___ _____

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Living thing

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Gods laws to the Israelites included ____________

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Instructions on how to clean themselves and their clothes

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What is a hypothesis

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An educated guess

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What is a theory

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After talking Greek philosophers would make a hypothesis a belief and call it a theory

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The way the Greek philosophers found a belief left out what step??

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Experimenting

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Who believed that in order to be healthy our bodies needed liquid humors??

A

Hippocrates

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What are liquid humors?

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4 liquids Hippocrates believed we needed

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What did Aristotle think about conducting experiments??

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That u needed to not just talk about your thoughts but to conduct your experiments

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What was a wrong theory by Aristotle ?

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Spontaneous generation

17
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What is spontaneous generation??

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A theory that said life could come from non living things

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Galen was a _____ physician who read all of _____ work

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Roman & Aristotle

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Galen used ____ rags soaked in ____ to treat gladiators

A

Clean & wine

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Galen couldn’t dissect people Bc it was against _______ law

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Roman

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Who questioned Galen’s ideas ?

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Andreas Vesalius

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Who dissected human cadavers which are dead human beings

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Andreas Vesalius

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Anton van leewenhoek thought if he made lens correctly he could ____ things

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Magnify

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Leewenhoek called the little organisms he saw ____

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Animalcules

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Robert Hooke made the ____ microscope

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Compound

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A compound microscope had how many lenses

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2

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Hooke called cells, cells BC??

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They reminded him of the cell rooms monks lives in

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Each of your cels has how many packaged dnas (chromosomes)

A

46

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DNa determines your hair and eye and skin __ whether you’ll be a boy or girl and more

A

Color

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Or dnas main job is to_____________

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Tell your cells what proteins to make and how to make them

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Dna is in the ______

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Nucleus

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Rna copies info in the DNA and brings it to the _____

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Ribosomes

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RNA takes a recipe to the ribosomes to make ____

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Protein

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What is the definition of differentiate??

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To make things different

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The four main kinds of tissue in our body are_______________

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Nervous connective muscular and epithelial

36
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Muscular tissue makes our ____

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Muscles

37
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Nervous tissue makes our _____

A

Brain and nerves

38
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Connective tissue connects our ____ to our bodies

A

Organs

39
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Epithelial tissue is the lining of what 3 things??

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Our organs nose & mouth

40
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An ____ is a group of tissues working together to perform a specific function

A

Organ

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Our body has how many organ systems??

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