| Question | Answer |
| Biology | the study of life and living things |
| Anatomy | the study of structures and relationship between structures in organism based on observation and description |
| Physiology | the study of the functions of the system of an organism based on observation and experimentation |
| Microscopic Anatomy | the study of structures that can't be seen without magnification |
| Cytology | the study of cells |
| Histology | the study of tissues |
| Gross Anatomy | structures you can see with the human eye |
| Developmental Anatomy | the structural changes from conception |
| comparative anatomy | considers the anatomical organization of different types of animals |
| What 4 chemicals make up 99% of the body? | Hydrogen, Oxygen, Carbon, Nitrogen |
| What is the result of the combination of many molecules? | cells |
| Cells | the smallest living units in the body |
| organelles | individually functioning parts of a cell |
| The human organism is composed of how many organ systems? | 11 |
| Homeostasis | maintenance of a constant internal environment |
| irritability | ability of an organism to change in activity based upon a stimulus |
| adaptability | long term response |
| growth vs. differentiation | growth = ability to increase in size and individual cells; differentiation = becoming specialized for particular function |
| reproduction | production of new generation of same organism |
| metabolism | all chemical processes in the body |
| anabolism | building bonds |
| catabolism | the breaking of bonds; decomposition |
| absorption | the process of bringing chemicals into the body |
| 11 body systems | integumentary, skeletal, muscular, nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, lymphatic, respiratory, digestive, urinary, reproductive |
