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What’s epithelial tissues?

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Sheets of cells that are make coverings and linings of the body and organs and organ systems

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What’s connective tissue

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Provide structural support for bones and cartilage in the skeletal system

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What’s muscle tissue?

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Contraction of muscle tissue gives movement and also aids internal processes like digestion

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Nervous system

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Conducts electrical impulses through the body meaning fast transfer of information

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What’s the function of the epithelial tissues

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Protects all internal tissues and organs

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What are the different types of muscle tissues

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striated- control enabling to move bones
Non striated- internal body processes and functions
Cardiac- in the heart wall, controls and never tiers

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What hormone does the pituitary gland produce

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Adrenocritictropic hormone
Follicle stimulation hormone

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What hormone does the thyroid gland produce

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Thyroxine
Triiodothyronine

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What hormone does the pancreas produce

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Insulin
Glucagon

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10
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What hormone does the adrenal gland produce

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epinephrine and norepinephrine

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What hormones does the ovaries produce

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Oestrogen
Progesterone

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12
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What hormone does the testes produce

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Testosterone

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13
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What is a amylase

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It’s made in the mouth and pancreas’s and it breaks down to complex carbohydrates

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What is lipase enzymes

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It’s made up in the pancreas and breaks down fats

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What is protease enzymes

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it’s made in the pancreas and breaks down proteins

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16
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What is esophagus

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It’s hallow muscular tube that carries food and liquid through your throat and stomache

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What is fibrous?

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They are connected by dense connective tissues consisting of collagen etc skull and pelvis

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18
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What is the cartilaginous?

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Slight movement meaning bones separated by disc of cartilage

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What is homeostatic mechanisms

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The ability or tendency to maintain internal stability in an organism

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Homeostasis what is it?

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A state of balance around all the body’s system needed for the body to survive and function correctly

21
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What should enzymes must have

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Enzymes in a body cells must have the correct temperature to be able to catalyse chemical reactions

22
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What’s the role of the hypothalamus

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Keeps your body in a stable state and controls the coordinating centre

23
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What’s the role of the automatic system

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It regulates health rate and blood pressure

24
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What’s aerobic respiration

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Chemical process where oxygen is used to make energy from carbohydrates

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Anoerobic respiration what is it?

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Occurs without oxygen and realises less energy

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What is catabolic reactions?

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Large molecules being broken down into smaller molecules

27
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what’s a genotype

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The set of genes that an organism possesses

28
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What’s a phenotype

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Physical appearance of an organism

29
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What’s an allelel

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Different forms of the same gene

30
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What’s. Homozygous

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When two alleles are identical e

31
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What is heterozygous

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Two alleles that are different

32
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What is dominant

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Allele which controls the characteristics

33
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What’s recessive

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Allele only shows up in both chromosomes

34
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What is cell devision

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The process which cells are formed for growth, repair and replacement in the body

35
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What causes cell devision

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Replaces old, dead or damaged cells

36
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What does the cel membrane do

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Controls what goes in and out

37
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What does mitrochondria do

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Chemical reactions take place and respiration

38
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What is chlorophyll

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Where photosynthesis takes place

39
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What does the Golgi do

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Packages molecules processed by endoplasmic to be deported

40
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Lymphnodes what does it do?

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They function as filters, trapping viruses, bacteria and other causes of illnesses before they can infect other parts of your body.

41
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What does the appendix do

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acts as a storehouse for good bacteria, “rebooting” the digestive system after diarrheal illnesses.

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Bone marrow what does it do?

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manufactures bone marrow stem cells and other substances, which in turn produce blood cells.

43
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What does the tonsills do?

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they can stop germs entering the body through the mouth or the nose

44
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What does thymus do?

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train special white blood cells called T-lymphocytes or T-cells.

45
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What does the spleen do?

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controls the level of white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets (small cells that form blood clots) It screens the blood and removes any old or damaged red blood cells

46
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Non striated tissue

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Movement of the body parts, they are smooth and long.

47
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Striated tissues

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Convert chemical energy to physical work.
They force and contract in order to support respiration

48
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Nervous tissue

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Coordinating and controlling many body activities

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