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What is the job of the Circulatory system?

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It delivers nutrients absorbed by your digestive system to each cell in your body. It also transports oxygen and removes waste products.

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The heart is part of the circulatory system true or false?

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True

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What does the right side of the heart do?

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The right side is the pulmonary system and receives deoxygenated blood from your body and pumps it to your lungs

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What does the left side of the heart do?

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The left side is the systemic system and it receives oxygenated blood from your lungs and pumps it to your body

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What are the two heart chambers?

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The atrium and the ventricles

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What are atriums?

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They are the upper chambers of your heart and they receive blood from your lungs and body. There is a right and left atrium.

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What are ventricles?

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They are the right and left lower chambers of your heart and they pump blood to the body.

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What do your arteries do?

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They are vessels that carry blood away from your heart

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What are veins?

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They carry blood towards your heart

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What are capillaries?

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They are specialized blood vessels that are located between the arteries and the veins that allow the diffusion of nutrients and gases

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True or false: cappilaries are wide so blood cells can fit through

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False

The blood cells go through one at a time because it is narrow

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True or false: The capillaries are made of special epithelial tissue that is one layer thick

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True

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What is the function of red blood cells

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They carry oxygen

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What is the function of white blood cells

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They fight infections and work with antibodies to find antigens to destroy

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What are platelets

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They are the cells in your blood that help to stop bleeding at cuts

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What does plasma do

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It is the liquid portion of your blood that transports nutrients to your cells and carries wastes such as carbon dioxide away.

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Blood vessels transport blood to and away from the heart true or false?

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True

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What does your respiratory system do?

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It gives your blood the oxygen and removes carbon dioxide from your blood

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What process is breathing

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It is the process your respiratory system use to move air in and out of your lungs

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What is bronchi

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they are the two big branches of your airway that lead into the lungs.

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True or false: Bronchi is lined with cartilage to keep the airway from collapsing

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True

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What is Alveoli?

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They are tiny air-filled sacs in the lungs that are the site of gas exchange

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What happens when your diaphragm moves down?

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The volume of your lungs increases

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What happens when your diaphragm moves up?

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The volume of the lungs decreases

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What covers the alveoli?

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Capillaries

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What happens when the volume of the lungs increases?

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Air comes in

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What happens when the volume of the lungs decreases

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Air comes out

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What does the diaphragm do?

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It draws air in and out of the lungs

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What is the function of the digestive system?

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This system breaks down the food you eat into parts your cells can use for energy

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Where does digestion start?

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The mouth: your chewing breaks down your food and your saliva contains an enzyme that digests large starch molecules into smaller sugar molecules

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What are the 2 types of digestion?

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Mechanical, Chemical

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What is mechanical digestion?

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Physical breakdown of food into small pieces

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What is chemical digestion?

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Breakdown of large particles into smaller pieces by substances called enzymes

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What are enzymes?

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They are proteins created by the body for chemical digestion

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What is the esophagus?

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It is a muscular tube connecting the throat with the stomach

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How does the esophagus work?

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Food is funnelled to the esophagus and it by-passes the windpipe which is covered by a flap of skin called the epiglottis

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What is peristalsis?

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series of wave-like contractions of muscle tissue that lines the esophagus

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What is the stomach’s main job?

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To break food down

It absorbs some nutrients but not a lot.

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What chemically digests proteins into smaller particles

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Gastric juice components, hydrochloric acid and enzymes

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40
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What stops the gastric juice from digesting the stomach

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A mucus

41
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What does the small intestine do?

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This is where the absorption of nutrients is done

42
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How long is the small intestine

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6 meters

43
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What is the small intestine covered with

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Finger-like projections called villi

44
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What are microvilli

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These structures do the absorbing of nutrients in the small intestine

45
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True or False: As food travels through the small intestine it is digested by millions of gut bacteria

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True

46
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What does the gall bladder do?

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It shoots bile(digestive liquid) into your small intestine to chemically digest large clumps of lipids into smaller droplets. it helps digest fats

47
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What is the function of the pancreas?

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It creates enzymes breakdown carbohydrates, lipids, and protein

48
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What is the liver’s function?

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It produces a substance called bile that is stored in the gall bladder

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True or false? The large intestine(colon) is home to a few bacteria that digest food

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False. It is home to even more than the small intestine that digests food

50
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True or False? The large intestine is around 1 meter long

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True

51
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What is the large intestines function

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It absorbs and dehydrates nutrients and liquids and turns it into stool

52
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What happens to undigested materials in the large intestine?

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It forms into feces and exits the rectum

53
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What are all of the organs in the digestive system

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esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, liver, pancreas, and gall bladder

54
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what is the excretory system

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Excretion is the removal of urea and other wastes from the blood

55
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True or False: All organisms create waste

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True

56
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What is the urinary system made of

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Kidney, Ureter, bladder and urethra

57
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What happens when gut bacteria break down proteins in the intestines?

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A very toxic compound called ammonia is produced

58
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What happens to ammonia in the liver?

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The liver converts ammonia into a less harmful substance called urea

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What is urea

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A waste product found in urine

60
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What does the kidney do?

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It filters the blood, straining out the unwanted urea and other wastes. It then takes these wastes and produces urine.

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True or False: The kidney regulates the amount of water and salt in our blood

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True

62
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What are nephrons?

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They are small filtering units of the kidney that removes waste from the blood and produces urine

63
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How many nephrons does each kidney have?

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1 million

64
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What is pumped around nephrons?

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Blood is pumped around the nephrons and the nephrons collect waste

65
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What are the ureters

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They are tubes that transport urine from the kidneys to the bladder

66
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What does the bladder do?

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It is a storage container for urine so that it can all be disposed of at once instead of a little bit at a time

67
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What is the urethra?

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It is the tube that leads out of the bladder that drains the urine

68
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What are the two main parts of the nervous system?

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The central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system

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What does the nervous system do/control?

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It is the center of all mental activity including thought, learning and memory. It is the major controlling, regulatory and communicating system in the body.

70
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What is nervous tissue

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It makes up the brain, spinal cord and nerves

71
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True or false: An organism must interpret and respond to all the different stimuli from its environment and surrounding to survive

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True

72
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What are neurons

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They are specialized cells of the nervous system that receive and transmit info

73
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What are the three parts of a neuron?

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DEndrites: receives stimulus
Stoma: Main body of the cell
Axon: Relays stimulus to other neurons

74
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What are the three types of neurons?

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Sensory neurons: Carry info from the body to the central nervous system
Motor neurons: Carry info from the central nervous system to the muscles and organs
Interneuron: Connects one neuron to another

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What composes the brain and nerves of the spinal cord?

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Nerve cells(neurons)

76
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True or false: THere are over 86 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections

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True

77
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What happens in the central nervous system?

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info flows through it to the center(brain)

78
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What are the two parts of the peripheral nervous system

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Somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system

79
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What does periphery mean?

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The outside or outer edge

80
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Why is it called the peripheral nervous system?

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Because all of these nerves are located outside of the central nervous system

81
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What neurons does the peripheral nervous system have?

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Sensory and motor neurons that carry messages from cells to the nervous system

82
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What does somatic mean?

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It originates from the word soma which is greek for body

83
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What does the somatic nervous system control

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all voluntary responses

84
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What are some examples of voluntary actions that the somatic nervous system controls?

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Walking, moving muscle, urination, eyeball movements, etc.)

85
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What is the reflex arc?

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sensory mechanism that controls a reflex or an immediate response to a stimulus

86
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True or false: some dangers make a message that will skip the brain to save time and reduce the impact of the danger

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True

87
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What does the autonomic nervous system control?

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involuntary actions

88
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What are some examples of actions an organism can’t control?

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Sweating, heart rate, breathing, blinking, body temp, etc.)

89
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Central nervous system —->

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Brain and spine

90
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What is diffusion?

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The spreading of something from a higher concentration to a region of lower concentration.

91
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Why is the discovery of cells important?

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It gave us an understanding of the building blocks of all living organisms and the discovery of cells had led to advances in medical technology and treatment.

92
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Why are cells important?

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They provide a structure for all living organisms and they are the smallest form of life.

93
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What is active transport?

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It is the process of dissolved molecules moving in or out of a cell through the cell membrane from a region of lower concentration to a region with a higher one.

94
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When and what is active transport used for?

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Cells use it when needed molecules need to be collected such as sugar(glucose)

95
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What is Active transport powered by?

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ATP

96
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What is osmosis?

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The process of substances passing through a semipermeable membrane that separates two liquids of a different concentration. OSmosis equals out the concentration levels.

97
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What is an isotonic solution?

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This is where the concentration is equal

98
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What is a hypertonic solution?

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The substance outside of the semi-permeable membrane has a higher concentration than the inside

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What is a hypotonic solution?

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This is where the inside of the cell has a higher concentration than what’s outside of the semi-permeable membrane of the cell.

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