Biology Flashcards
Do gooder
A special iron-containing blood protein that binds easily to oxygen and gives blood its characteristic red color.
Hemoglobin
The movement of water, digested food, and other dissolved substances into the bloodstream.
Absorption
Tiny hair-like projections of the small intestine whose primary function is to absorb digested food.
Villi
Signals the liver and muscles to remove glucose from the blood and store it as glycogen.
Insulin
The chemical processes of life.
Metabolism
Calories
The energy content of food
Carbohydrates
Provide most of the energy for living things.
Amino acids
Make up protiens
Characterized by insolubility in water
Lipids
One of the most common forms of cancer, treatable if caught early
Colon cancer
What is the energy carrier of the cell?
ATP
Important organic substances
found in plants and animals.
Vitamins
Most common disease in man
Cavity
Rythimic wave of muscular contractions that moves food through the digestive tract.
Peristalsis
Scientific name for throat
Pharynx
Organs that cut and crush food into smaller peices
Teeth
Universal donor
O-
Universal recipent
AB+
Tough white sac that encloses the heart
Pericardium
Scientific name for chewing
Mastication
Covers the trachea when you swallow
Epiglottis
J shaped storage structure below the diaphragm
Stomach
Produces bile
Liver
Stores bile
Galbladder
Primary organ of digestion
Small intestine
The part of the small intestine where most chemical digestion occurs
Duodenum
Part of the small intestine where the most absorption occurs
Juojenum
Growth in length
Primary growth
Older, inner wood of a tree, conducts sap.
Heartwood
Thick, horizontal, underground stems.
Rhizomes
Special stems used for protection
Thorns
One way diffusion through a semi permeable membrane
Osmosis
Plant that produces seeds not covered by the walls of an ovary
Gymnosperm
Term for an organism using both sexual and Asexual reproduction.
Alternation of generations
Feed on dead organisms
Saprophytes
Nonliving tissue around cells
Matrix
Tissue that joins bones to other bones
ligaments
Nerve that connects the nose to the brain
Olfactory nerve
Rhythmic wave of muscular contractions, for swallowing
Peristalsis
Case where too little oxygen is going to the cells
Anemia
Act as roots for moss
Rhizoids
