Chapter 3 Flashcards
What is tissue?
A group of cells with a similar structure and function working together.
What is an organ?
Organs are collections of tissues working together for a specific function.
What is an Organ system?
Organ systems are groups of organs working together to perform a specific function. Examples are the digestive system, the circulatory system and the gas exchange system.
All systems have adaptions to make them more effective as exchange surfaces what are they?
- a rich blood supply
- areas with short diffusion distances
- mechanisms to increase the concentration gradient
What tissues does the stomach contain?
Epithelial tissue - which covers the inside and outside of the organ.
glandular tissue- to produce the digestive juices that break down food.
Muscular tissue - to churn the food and digestive juices together.
What does the liver do?
Produces bile
What does the stomach do?
Breaking down large insoluble molecules into smaller I soluble molecules.
What does the small intestine do?
Breaks down large insoluble molecules into smaller I soluble molecules and absorption.
What does the large intestine do?
Absorbs water from undigested food.
What are carbohydrates?
- They are made of sugar units.
Complex carbohydrates contain long chains of simple sugar units bonded. - Fuel for reactions
- Broken down into glucose to provide energy for metabolic reactions in your cells.
What are lipids?
Lipids are fatty acids and oils.
Most efficient energy store in your body.
Combine with other molecules, to become important in cell membranes as hormones in your nerve system.
What are proteins?
Proteins are used for building cells and tissues and the bases of enzymes.
Protein is made up of long chains of amino acids
Structural components of of tissues
Antibodies and enzymes
What are enzymes?
Enzymes are special biological catalysts which speed up reactions. Each enzyme interacts with a specific substrate.
The shape is crucial to the amino acids are folded so they are in specific shape for a unique substrate.
What do enzymes control?
Metabolism - the sum of all reactions
Different enzymes speed up specific types of metabolic reactions.
List 3 metabolic reactions.
Building large molecules from lots of smaller ones. Such as building starch, glycogen or cellulose from glucose.
Changing one molecule into another. This includes simple sugar to another, converting amino acids to another.
Breaking down large molecules into smaller ones. This includes breaking down carbohydrates lipids and proteins
