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Epithelial tissue?

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Makes the lining of our digestive organs and our mouth & nose

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Organs?

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Group of tissues work together to form a specific purpose

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Why did Galen never dissect a human body?

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It was against roman law

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What did Galen use to clean his rags?

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Wine

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Name the 4 kinds of tissue in our body

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Epithelial, connective, nervous, & muscular

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A cadaver is a what?

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Dead body

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What are the two main jobs of our dna?

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To tell how are cells to make proteins and to tell our cells how to make them

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What does the RNA do?

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Takes messages from dna to the ribosomes and uses it to make protein

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According to the Egyptians, what got them to heaven?

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How heavy their heart is compared to a feather

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What is the name of aristotles wrong theory?

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Spontaneous generation

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What were some of the laws God gave the Hebrews to protect them from illness

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Instructions on how to clean themselves and their clothes

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Why did Robert Hook call things he saw in his microscope cells

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Because they reminded him of the cell rooms monks lived in

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What did the ancient Egyptians used to keep a persons body from decaying after death

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Salt and other chemicals

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What did Anton van Leeuwenhoek call the little organisms he saw with his microscope ??

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Animalcules

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What is the difference between a hypothesis and a theory to the ancient Greeks?

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A hypothesis was an educated guess but a theory is once they make the hypothesis a belief

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This man thought we needed liquid humors

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Hippocrates

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What group of people spent a lot of time thinking about science but didn’t really do experiments

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Greeks

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This person performed dissections on actual human cadavers

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Vesalius

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Red bone marrow produces what

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Red blood cells

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What is a special tissue that connects are bones to other bones

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Ligaments

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What is a special tissue that prevents bones from touching each other

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Cartledge

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What is another name for fats

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Lipids

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What Runs from my brain down her back into her hips and there’s a part of the nervous system and gives us ability to move in even talk

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Spinal cord

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What is a disease that can cause children to be weak and become to deformed

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Rickets

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Yellow bone marrow stores what?
Fats/lipids
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Where is the tiniest bone in our body found
Ear
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What joints are in our ankles
Saddle
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What joints only open and close
Hinge
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Joints move up-and-down back-and-forth and rotate
Ball and socket
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What joints help us to move our head up and down side to side until even left or right towards our shoulders
Pivot
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Joints allow our back to bend and twist
Plane
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Is the scientific name for our hammer bone
Malleus
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What is the Scientific name for our anvil
Incus
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What is the scientific name for our stirrup?
Stapes
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What organs does our skeletal system protect
Heart lungs and brain
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What is the difference between osteoporosis and arthritis
Osteoporosis is my bones are brittle and have holes in them so they break down because of lack of nutrients but arthritis is lack of synovial fluid in her joints that cause pain to move them and they swell
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Compact bone are made of many layers of calcium tough fiber called what
Collagen
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What mineral is found in our body that we get by eating green vegetables fish milk and cereal's
Phosphorus
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What mineral helps our heart beating in her mind to think cleared
Calcium
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Someone's not get the right kind nutrients we say they have
Malnutrition
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The outside tough thin membrane of bone is called what?
Compact bone
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New bone is made with cells called
Osteo blasts
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When your muscles are partially contracted and always working we called this
Muscle tone
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Method used by our muscles that do not require oxygen to get their energy is called
Anaerobic
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What is the strongest muscle in our body
Is our masseter
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What is a waste produced by the type of energy that requires oxygen
Lactic acid
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When a part of your body shrinks in size and becomes week to disease injury or lack of use recall this
Atrophy
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Beside muscles look striped under a microscope we call this what?
Striated
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An illness that effects the masseter is what?
Tetanus
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Your Achilles' tendon attaches to what two places?
Calf & heel
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The strongest muscle in our body is what?
Achilles
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Smooth muscles are?
Involuntary
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What does a reflexive action do
Your muscle can move immediately because something has happened without any thought coming to your brain
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What uses glucose and oxygen but for the blood to make energy so your body can move
Mitochondria
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Is the largest muscle in your body
Gluteus Maximus
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What are good examples of antagonist muscles?
Bicep and tricep
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The waste muscles make is
Carbon dioxide and lactic acid
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What controls are muscle
Nerves
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_____ opens the joints but _____ closes it
1.extensor 2. Flexor
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Four places we have smooth muscles in our body
Bladder blood vessels stomach and intestines
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Our three different kinds of muscles
Well it's skeletal smooth and cardiac
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REM stands for
Rapid Eye movement
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What's another name for our eardrum!
Tympanum
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What does our stomach do?
It stores the food for 3 to 4 hours while digestion is occurring it's churning breaks down protein
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Does our liver/pancreas do
Makes chemicals to break down food
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What does our small intestine do
Final digestion takes place in its 20 foot tube
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Does our large intestine do
Stores solid waste and removes water
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Connective tissue does what?
Makes our organs and bones hold together

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