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1
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What is osmosis?

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Solvent molecules pass through a membrane from less to more concentrated solution

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What is osmolarity

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Ratio of solution; Water

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Osmoregulation

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Regulate the osmolarity of an organism body fluid to maintain homeostatis

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4
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Two response to abiotic factor

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Regulate - maintain constant condition
Conform - Adjust according to surrounding

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Osmoregulators and examples

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regulate their body osmolarity to maintain constant internal condition

Examples are: Humans, Vertebrates, and salt and fresh water fishesh

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Osmoconformers and example

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Match their body osmolarity to their environment

Example: Shark, Lobster and star fish

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Nutrition

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This helps organism to develop bodies, heal damage parts and give energy to life and activity

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8
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Can produce their own foods?

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Autotropic

-Plants

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Cannot produce their own food?

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Hetero tropic Nutrients

-Humans, Animals

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10
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Define digestion

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Mechanical and chemical process in which food substance are broken down into simple substance

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What is mouth?

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this produce saliva where mechanical mastication takes form bolus

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12
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Esophagus

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A muscular tube that conduct peristalsis and passage way for food

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13
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Stomach

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Muscular sac that contain gastric juices in order to break down food chemically

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14
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Liver

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produce bile that helps digestion of fats

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15
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Gall bladder

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helps storage of bile and discharging from the cystic duct

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16
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Pancreas

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Release pancreatic juice and enzymes which help in digestion of protein and starch

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17
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Small intestine

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tube contains villi that absorbs nutrients from food and water

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18
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Large intestine

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This absorbs water and salt from material that has not been digested as food and get rid of waste products

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19
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Anus

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Kill feces

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20
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The digestive Process
1-4

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Ingestion
Digestion
Absorption
Elimination

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21
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Substrate Feeder

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Animals that live and eat on their source

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22
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Filter feeders

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Aquatic animals

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23
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Fluid feeders

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Animals suck fluid containing nutrients from other animals

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24
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Bulk feeder

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Break down and swallow foods

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25
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Photosynthesis

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Light converted into energy

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26
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Parts of plants - Roots

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Roots - absorbs water and nutrients from the soil

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27
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Leaves

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Photosynthesis takes place

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28
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What is trapping mechanism

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Insect eating plant

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29
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Pitcher plant

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scent to attract

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30
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Venus Flytrap

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Bear trap

31
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Cobra lily

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Confuse their prey to enter its translucent leafs

32
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Sundew

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sticky trap substance

32
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Yellow pitcher plant

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Contains drop water

33
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Monkey cup

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trap into a a burial hole

33
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Function of Circulatory system

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circulate blood
Transport oxygen tot he cells
Seperating C02 from the cells
movement of immune system
transport of endocrine gland secretions

34
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Close circulatory system

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The bloods flows through through the arteries and veins connected by capillaries

34
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Open circulatory system

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Bloods flows freely through the cavity since there’s no vessel to conduct the blood

35
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Simples Organism

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2 cell layer covering get supply their gases and excrete waste through diffusion

36
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Heart

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Size of fist pumps blood through out the body

37
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Artery

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Thick elastic red color that separated blood from heart

38
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Veins

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Blue colored muscular wall returns blood back to heart

39
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Capillary

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A tiny one thick cell connect arteries and veins together. Carries blood and nutrients to the tissues

40
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Blood

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41
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Vascular system of plants

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transport water and nutrients from the root to its body

42
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Xylem

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waters and minerals from down to above

43
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Phloem

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spread water and nutrients

44
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Cns

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Information and coordination

45
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PNS

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Nerves branches out from the brain and spine

46
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Cerebrum

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Intellect, learning, perceptions, and emotion

47
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Frontal lobe

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Sense of smell, Movement

48
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Parental lobe

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Sense of touch, sense movement

49
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occipital lobe

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Vision

50
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Temporal Lobe

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Hear memory fuction

51
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Peripheral Nervous System

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Network of nerve spread across the body

52
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how many pair of nerves?

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-43
-12 cranial
-31 spinal

53
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Dendrites

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Receive signals

54
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Cell body

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Contains cell nucleus

55
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Myelin Sheath

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insulate the axon to help protect the neuron cell and speed up impulse condition

56
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Axon

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conduct nerve impulse away from the cell body

57
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Sensory neurons

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Mechanoreceptors
Thermoreceptors
Nociceptors
chemoreceptors

58
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Interneurons

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Receive information from sensory neurons process and generate message to the motor neurons

59
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Motor neurons

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Create muscle contracting and inhibition

60
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Sensory somatic nervous system

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control skelital mucles

61
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Autonomic nervous system

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controls body function without conscious control

62
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Autonomic Nervous system controls what?

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glands
Smooth muscles
Cardiac Muscle

63
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Sympathetic Nervous system

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fight or flight response

64
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parasympathetic nervous system

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rest and digest

65
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Photo receptors

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detects the quantity and quality of light

66
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Thigmotropism

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response to touch (makahiya)

67
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Plant nervous system

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capable of generating electrical impulses called action potentials

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