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1
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Epithelial tissue?

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Makes the lining of our digestive organs and our mouth & nose

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2
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Organs?

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Group of tissues work together to form a specific purpose

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3
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Why did Galen never dissect a human body?

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It was against roman law

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4
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What did Galen use to clean his rags?

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Wine

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5
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Name the 4 kinds of tissue in our body

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Epithelial, connective, nervous, & muscular

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6
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A cadaver is a what?

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Dead body

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7
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What are the two main jobs of our dna?

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To tell how are cells to make proteins and to tell our cells how to make them

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8
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What does the RNA do?

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Takes messages from dna to the ribosomes and uses it to make protein

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9
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According to the Egyptians, what got them to heaven?

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How heavy their heart is compared to a feather

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10
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What is the name of aristotles wrong theory?

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Spontaneous generation

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11
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What were some of the laws God gave the Hebrews to protect them from illness

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Instructions on how to clean themselves and their clothes

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12
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Why did Robert Hook call things he saw in his microscope cells

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Because they reminded him of the cell rooms monks lived in

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13
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What did the ancient Egyptians used to keep a persons body from decaying after death

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Salt and other chemicals

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14
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What did Anton van Leeuwenhoek call the little organisms he saw with his microscope ??

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Animalcules

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15
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What is the difference between a hypothesis and a theory to the ancient Greeks?

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A hypothesis was an educated guess but a theory is once they make the hypothesis a belief

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16
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This man thought we needed liquid humors

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Hippocrates

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17
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What group of people spent a lot of time thinking about science but didn’t really do experiments

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Greeks

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18
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This person performed dissections on actual human cadavers

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Vesalius

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19
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Red bone marrow produces what

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Red blood cells

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20
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What is a special tissue that connects are bones to other bones

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Ligaments

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21
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What is a special tissue that prevents bones from touching each other

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Cartledge

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22
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What is another name for fats

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Lipids

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23
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What Runs from my brain down her back into her hips and there’s a part of the nervous system and gives us ability to move in even talk

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Spinal cord

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24
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What is a disease that can cause children to be weak and become to deformed

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Rickets

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25
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Yellow bone marrow stores what?

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Fats/lipids

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26
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Where is the tiniest bone in our body found

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Ear

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27
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What joints are in our ankles

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Saddle

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28
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What joints only open and close

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Hinge

29
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Joints move up-and-down back-and-forth and rotate

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Ball and socket

30
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What joints help us to move our head up and down side to side until even left or right towards our shoulders

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Pivot

31
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Joints allow our back to bend and twist

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Plane

32
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Is the scientific name for our hammer bone

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Malleus

33
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What is the Scientific name for our anvil

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Incus

34
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What is the scientific name for our stirrup?

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Stapes

35
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What organs does our skeletal system protect

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Heart lungs and brain

36
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What is the difference between osteoporosis and arthritis

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Osteoporosis is my bones are brittle and have holes in them so they break down because of lack of nutrients but arthritis is lack of synovial fluid in her joints that cause pain to move them and they swell

37
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Compact bone are made of many layers of calcium tough fiber called what

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Collagen

38
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What mineral is found in our body that we get by eating green vegetables fish milk and cereal’s

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Phosphorus

39
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What mineral helps our heart beating in her mind to think cleared

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Calcium

40
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Someone’s not get the right kind nutrients we say they have

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Malnutrition

41
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The outside tough thin membrane of bone is called what?

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Compact bone

42
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New bone is made with cells called

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Osteo blasts

43
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When your muscles are partially contracted and always working we called this

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Muscle tone

44
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Method used by our muscles that do not require oxygen to get their energy is called

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Anaerobic

45
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What is the strongest muscle in our body

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Is our masseter

46
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What is a waste produced by the type of energy that requires oxygen

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Lactic acid

47
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When a part of your body shrinks in size and becomes week to disease injury or lack of use recall this

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Atrophy

48
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Beside muscles look striped under a microscope we call this what?

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Striated

49
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An illness that effects the masseter is what?

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Tetanus

50
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Your Achilles’ tendon attaches to what two places?

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Calf & heel

51
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The strongest muscle in our body is what?

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Achilles

52
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Smooth muscles are?

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Involuntary

53
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What does a reflexive action do

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Your muscle can move immediately because something has happened without any thought coming to your brain

54
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What uses glucose and oxygen but for the blood to make energy so your body can move

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Mitochondria

55
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Is the largest muscle in your body

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Gluteus Maximus

56
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What are good examples of antagonist muscles?

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Bicep and tricep

57
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The waste muscles make is

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Carbon dioxide and lactic acid

58
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What controls are muscle

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Nerves

59
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_____ opens the joints but _____ closes it

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1.extensor 2. Flexor

60
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Four places we have smooth muscles in our body

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Bladder blood vessels stomach and intestines

61
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Our three different kinds of muscles

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Well it’s skeletal smooth and cardiac

62
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REM stands for

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Rapid Eye movement

63
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What’s another name for our eardrum!

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Tympanum

64
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What does our stomach do?

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It stores the food for 3 to 4 hours while digestion is occurring it’s churning breaks down protein

65
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Does our liver/pancreas do

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Makes chemicals to break down food

66
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What does our small intestine do

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Final digestion takes place in its 20 foot tube

67
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Does our large intestine do

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Stores solid waste and removes water

68
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Connective tissue does what?

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Makes our organs and bones hold together

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