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1
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Which organelles are found only in plant cells?

A

Chloroplasts and cell wall

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2
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What is the function of the liver?

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Creates a bile, that breaks down the fat into tiny droplets

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3
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How does a heart attack occur?

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Arteries become completely blocked with plaque or blood clots

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What system is the lungs in?

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Respiratory System

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What happens when too much water is removed from digested food in the large intestine?

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You get constipation

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6
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What is the main job for the large intestine?

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To remove water

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7
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What is the filler between the dermal and vascular tissue?

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Ground tissue

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8
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Upper and lower leaf surfaces are covered by a layer of epidermal tissue, this tissue is made up of cells with a waxy texture called?

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Cuticle

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9
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What are special openings in the leaf surface?

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Stomata

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10
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Stomata openings are surrounded and controlled by pairs of what special epidermal cell?

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Guard cells

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11
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What is the tall layer with closely packed cells containing chloroplast?

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Palisade layer

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12
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carries co2 back to the lungs

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Veins

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13
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__________ is the control centre of the cell and contains all the genetic information in the form of DNA.

A

Nucleus

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14
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________ is a cancerous tumour that can spread.

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Malignant

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15
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What grows on trees and bushes, and is tasty to eat?

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FRUIT

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16
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A plant becomes limp from heat loss and dehydration

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WILT

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17
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When not enough water is taken out of what is traveling through the large intestine it causes?

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Diarrhea

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18
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Name the disease in which a cell does not respond to the nucleus and causes decay and the cell loses the power to regulate reproduction

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Cancer

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19
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what is the process of exchaning oxygen for carbon dioxide

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breathing

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20
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The outer most layer of a plant

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Dermal tissue

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21
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What is a benign tumour?

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A non-cancerous tumour

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22
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Start of a plants life begins with_____?

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Seeds

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23
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The transportation system that moves water, minerals, and other chemicals around the plant

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Vascular tissue

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24
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What is the bottom half of a plants systems?

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Roots

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25
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What stage of mitosis do daughter cells form?

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Cytokinesis

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26
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what is bile?

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a fluid made by the liver, stored in the gallbladder that aids digestion

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27
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in which intestine does most digestion occur?

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the small intestine

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28
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what is the job of the large intestine?

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to absorb water from the indigestible food

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29
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what system is responsible for breathing?

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the respitory system

30
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What are chromosomes?

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Chromosomes are bundles of tightly coiled DNA located within the nucleus of almost every cell in our body.

31
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The final stage in cell division, the cytoplasm divides producing identical cells.

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Cytokinesis

32
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What is a right atrium

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Is one of four chambers of the heart (corner of the right side)

33
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What is a left ventricle

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One of the four chambers of the heart (bottom left portion)

34
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What is the left atrium

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One of the four chambers of the heart (left posterior of heart)

35
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What is a pulmonary artery

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The artery carrying blood from the right ventricle of the heart to the lungs for oxygenation

36
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The _________ system enables motion, and maintains and regulates body temperature.

A

Muscular

37
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what are the components of the respitory system?

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nose, mouth, trachea, bronchi, and lungs

38
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carries oxygen, rich blood away from the heart

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arteries

39
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What is mitosis?

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Mitosis is a method of cell division in which a cell divides and produces identical copies of itself.

40
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The longest phase of mitosis.

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Interphase

41
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What type of tumour does not affect surrounding tissues?

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Benign tumour

42
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What type of tumour interferes with the functioning of surrounding cells? (Cancerous cell)

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Malignant tumour

43
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When cancerous cells break away from the tumour and spread it is called ______

A

Metastasis

44
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What is the process by which cancer cells break away from the original tumour and establish another tumour elsewhere in the body?

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Metastasis

45
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Part of the plant that humans always eat?

A

Vegetables

46
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What is the type of diagnoses used when a sample of a tumour is removed in order to study under a microscope?

A

Biopsy

47
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What is a Petolie?

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The stalk of a plant that connects the leaf to the stem.

48
Q

What type of cancer is commonly caused by sunlight?

A

Skin cancer

49
Q

Two identical strands of a replicated chromosome, often referred to as sisters.

A

Chromatids

50
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The stage of the cell cycle where two daughter cells are formed and chromatids unwind is

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Telophase

51
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The stage of the cell cycle where chromosomes are visible and nuclear membrane dissolves is

A

Prophase

52
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The stage of the cell cycle where the chromosomes line up

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Metaphase

53
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The stage of the cell cycle where the chromosomes begin to split

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Anaphase

54
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What is the process of plants converting the Sun’s energy into food?

A

Photosynthesis

55
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This organ is part of the digestive system, makes bile and stores it in the gall bladder. Located in the chest area.

A

Liver

56
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The path food takes after the stomach. Part of the digestive system and is where bile from the liver is stored. Fat from food is broken down here to later be converted to energy.

A

Gall bladder

57
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An action a cell takes in order to grow, reproduce, and repair. Occurs in the order of prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase.

A

Cell division

58
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All cells come from other cells
All living things are made up of cell
The cell is the basic building block/unit of life

A

Cell theory

59
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Skin cancer abcd

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A a semetracal
D diameter
C colour
B border

60
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What is xylem?

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Transports water and dissolved minerals upward from roots.

61
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What is phloem?

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Transports solutions of sugars and other dissolved nutrients and hormones throughout the plant.

62
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What transports sugar solutions around the plant?

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Phloem

63
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What transports minerals and water upwards from the roots?

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Xylem

64
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What is dermal tissue?

A

Specialized to perform a wide variety of functions, and covers all non-woody surfaces of the plant.

65
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What vascular tissue?

A

Transportation system that moves water, minerals, and other chemicals around the plant.

66
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What is ground tissue?

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Has a variety of functions including manufacturing nutrients, storing carbohydrates, and providing storage and support.

67
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What is peristalsis?

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Muscle contraction of esophagus

68
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What is chyme?

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The state the food is in once it exits the stomach

69
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What is villi?

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Tiny fingers in the small intestine which absorb the nutrients and send them throughout the body through the blood stream.

70
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Where is bile stored?

A

Gall bladder

71
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blood is made up of:

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plasma-55%
buffy coat
-white blood cells
-platelets
red blood cells

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