unit 2 vocab 3

Question 1

Indicator

Answer 1

any material that reacts with or shows the presence of another specific substance by turning a color

Question 2

Germs

Answer 2

Microscopic organisms that may transmit disease or cause another organism to perform in a less optimal manner

Question 3

Mitosis

Answer 3

cell division that takes place in the cell nucleus and results in two new identical daughter cells

Question 4

Muscle tissue

Answer 4

found in all advanced organisms and enable it to move

Question 5

Nerve tisssue

Answer 5

enable an organism to interact with its environment

Question 6

Organ

Answer 6

group of different tissues all working together to perform a specific function

Question 7

Organism

Answer 7

when all the systems work together they make up an entity called a living thing

Question 8

Pathogen

Answer 8

any organism that causes an infectious disease

Question 9

permeability

Answer 9

property of cell membranes that allow particles of a certain size to move through in a specific direction

Question 10

System

Answer 10

a group of organs all working together to perform a specific function

Question 11

Tissue

Answer 11

a group of the same kind of cells that carry on the same function of work

Question 12

Transmission

Answer 12

the act of disease that is communicable being moved from one organism to another