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Unit 6: Musculoskeletal & Reproductive Systems

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Skeletal System's Jobs   provides shape and support, enables you to move, protects your organs, produces blood cells, stores materials  
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Joint   a place where two bones come together  
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Movable joints   allow the bones to make a range of movements depending on the type of joint  
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Immovable joints   connect bones in a way that allows little or no movement  
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Red bone marrow   produces the body's blood cells  
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Yellow bone marrow   stores fat  
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Involuntary muscles   not under your control (breathing and digesting food)  
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Voluntary muscles   under your control (moving your arm or leg)  
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Skeletal muscle   attached to the bones of your skeleton; voluntary movement  
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Cardiac muscle   muscle in your heart, involuntary like smooth muscle, does not get tired, but looks like skeletal muscle under the microscope  
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Smooth muscle   on the inside of many organs, such as the walls of the stomach and blood vessels; work automatically  
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Tendon   strong tissue that attaches muscle to bone  
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Asexual reproduction   Only 1 parent; all of the offspring are identical (clones)  
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Sexual reproduction   2 parents; all of the offspring have different genes  
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Number of chromosomes in human body cell   46  
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Number of chromosomes in human egg cell   23  
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Number of chromosomes in human sperm cell   23  
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Chromosome   Package of DNA inside the nucleus of your cell  
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Testic   Produce sperm (males only)  
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Prostate   Produces liquid that mixes with the sperm to make semen (males only)  
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Scrotum   Skin that protects the testis (males only)  
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Bladder   Stores urine (pee) (males and females)  
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Urethra   Tube that carries pee out of the body in females, and pee and sperm out of the body in males  
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Penis   Organ where semen (a mixture of sperm and other liquids) leaves the body (males only)  
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Cervix   Opening from the vagina to the uterus (females only)  
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Vagina   Where the sperm enters and where the baby leaves the mother's body during birth (females only)  
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Uterus   Where the baby grows and develops (females only)  
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Ovaries   Store eggs. Release one egg per month into the fallopian tube starting into adolescence (females only)  
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Fallopian tubes   Carry the egg from the ovary to the uterus (females only)  
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