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1. There are six levels of organization in the body - what are they? - Answer
- chemical level
- cellular level
- tissue level
- organ structure level
- organ system level
- organism level
2. The necessary life function that protects our internal environment from our external environment is
provided by what system? - Answer Integumentary System
3. The function of movement is provided by what system? - Answer Muscular system - but skeletal
system is responsible for framework of this system
4. The function of responsiveness is provided by what system? - Answer Nervous System
5. The function of digestion is provided by what system? - Answer Digestive System
6. What is anabolism? - Answer Synthesizing more complex structures from simpler ones
7. What is catabolism? - Answer Breakdown of substances into their simpler building blocks
8. Excretion involves what systems? - Answer The respiratory system and the urinary system
9. The reproductive system is controlled by what other system? - Answer Controlled by hormones from
the Endocrine System
, 10. Which tissue covers the body surface and lines the cavities of the body. - Answer Epithelial tissue
11. Name the three steps in cellular respiration. - Answer Glycolysis - Citric Acid Cycle - Electron
Transport Chain
12. What is the purpose of ATP? - Answer It is an energy-rich molecule that powers cellular activities,
allowing cells to have the energy needed to carry out their functions.
13. Epithelial cells perform what types of functions? - Answer They are specialized for tasks such as
secretion and absorption and these cells are under constant cell division to replace dead cells that shed
away
14. What are the four basic tissue types? - Answer Epithelium, muscle, connective, and nervous tissue
15. Review the figures in this lecture to recognize the major body systems. - Answer I reviewed it
16. Toward or at the body surface is known as what direction? - Answer Superficial
17. Away from the body surface is what direction? - Answer Deep
18. Between a more medial and more lateral structure is what orientation? - Answer Intermediate
19. Toward or at the midline of the body or on the inner side of is what direction? - Answer Medial
20. Away from the head end or toward the lower part of a structure of the body, is what direction? -
Answer Inferior
21. Toward the head end or upper part of a structure (above) is what direction? - Answer Superior