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digestive system - correct answers✅✅comprised of the mouth stomach
intestines. uses enzymes to break down foot that we eat to release it into
bloodstream and absorbed into cells. rids body of undigested food that don't
enter bloodstream in stool.
respiratory system - correct answers✅✅nose mouth trachea lungs. gas
exchange and pH regulation. removes CO2 from blood and exchanges for O2
circulatory system - correct answers✅✅made up of heart blood vessels
lymphatics blood cells. internal transport, pH maintenance temperature
stability. delivers nutrition and oxygen to cells and carries waste products
and CO2 away from cells.
immune system - correct answers✅✅defense system protects from
foreign substances or particles when exposed. white blood cells and lymph
nodes. maintains homeostasis.
excretory system - correct answers✅✅enables disposal of metabolic
wastes, regulation of salt, fluids and electrolytes. allows waste removal from
bloodstream via liver kidneys and urinary bladder skin and lungs.
integumentary system - correct answers✅✅skin- protects organs.
defense skin doesnt allow foreign bodies in. skin makes vitamin D and assists
in excretion.
musculoskeletal system - correct answers✅✅hips, spinal column, deltoids
quadriceps. protects movement support and shape. supports production of
blood and serves as storage sites for some minerals. muscle allow
movement strength posture and heat production. muscles work together to
move the body.
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nervous system - correct answers✅✅brain spinal cord and nerves.
integrates body function through nerves detects stimuli secretes chemicals
and electrical signals and controls other organ systems.
endocrine system - correct answers✅✅hypothalamus pituitary glands
adrenal glands pancreas and gonads. Integrates body through chemicals
hormones. cells use hormones to communicate with each other. hormones
are needed to maintain homeostasis.
reproductive system - correct answers✅✅scrotum testes prostate gland
vas degerens and penis (male) ovaries fallopian tubes uterus cervix vagina
(female) provides mechanisms for internal fertilization and production of new
offspring.
phylum chordata - correct answers✅✅1. urochordatea
2. cephalochordata
3. vertebrata (humans, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals)
vertebrata - correct answers✅✅humans are this because unlike the
urochordates and cephalochordates we have a column of bones (backbone)
and a tube within a tube construction (vertebrata have an outer tube formed
by a body wall and inner tube in the digestive tract. Humans have bilateral
symmetry that is. the left side of body is a mirror image of the right side.
anatomical position - correct answers✅✅human body is standing postion
with palms facing forward. When prone human body is postion posteriorly so
you have back side view.
superior - correct answers✅✅toward head end of the body. EX: chin is
superior to the shoulder.
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Inferior - correct answers✅✅means below or away from head of body. EX:
the belly button is inferior to the nose
Anterior - correct answers✅✅near the front of the body EX: nose is
anterior to the buttocks.
Posterior - correct answers✅✅mean near the back of the body EX: the
heart is posterior to the ribs
medial - correct answers✅✅closest to the midline of body EX: the big toe
is medial to the little toe
lateral - correct answers✅✅further away from midline of body EX:
appendix is lateral to the stomach.
proximal - correct answers✅✅toward nearest point of origin of a part,EX:
the wrist is proximal to the digitals.
distal - correct answers✅✅away from point of origin of a part. EX: finger
nail is distal to the phalange.
superficial - correct answers✅✅toward the surface of body EX: the ribs
are superficial to the heart
deep - correct answers✅✅away from surface of body EX: the brain is
deep to the skull
dorsal - correct answers✅✅refers to the back