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| tubelike passageway for air flow that connects with two bronchi tubes that lead inot the lungs |
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| two tubes that lead to the lungs |
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| each of the pair of organisms situated with in the rib cage, consisting of elastic sacs with branching passages |
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| sacs in the lungs where oxygen diffuses into the blood & carbon dioxided diffuses into the air |
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| flap of cartilige that closes over the opening of the respiritory tract during swallowing; prevents food from entering the resperitory tract |
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| chemical process where mitochondrid break down food molecules to produce ATP; 3 stages- glycosis, the cetric acid cycly, electron transport chain. |
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| Cellular Respiraton (chemical equation) |
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| C6 H12 O6 + O2 > ATP + CO2 + H2O |
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| life supporting component of the air |
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| net, random movement of particles from an area of higher concentration, to an area of lower concentration, eventually, resulting in even distribution |
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| short, numerous hairlike projections composed of pairs of micro tubes; frequently aid in locomotion |
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| energy-storing molecule in cells composed of an aenosline molecule; a ribose sugar and three phosphate groups |
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| in mammals, the sheet of muscles located beneath the lungs that seperates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity |
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| part of the brain stem that controlls involuntary activities such breathing & heart rate |
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| central nervouse system; the brain |
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| organisms regulation of its internal invironment to maintain conditions suitable for survival |
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| fluid portion of the blood that makesup about 55% of the total volume of blood. |
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| round, disk shaped cells in the blood that carry oxygen to body cells |
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| large, nucleated blood cells that play a major role in protecting the body from forgein substances & carries it from the lungs to the body's cells. |
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| foreign substances that stimulate an immune response in the body |
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| protiens in the blood plasma produced in the reaction to antigens that react with & disable antigens |
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| large, thick walled muscular vessle that carries blood away from the heart |
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| large blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart |
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| microscopic blood vessels with walls only one cell thichk thta allow diffusion of gasses & nutrients between the blood and surrounding tissues. |
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| two lower chambers of the mammalian heart |
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| two of the upper cavaties of the mammalian heart |
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| two large veins that fill the right atrium of the mammalian heart with oxygen- blood from veins |
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| largest blood vessel in the body |
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| blood artery carrying blood from the right ventrical of the heart to the lungs for oxygen |
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| surge of boold through an artery that can be felt on the surface of the body. |
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| two major arteries of the neck & head |
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| artery beginning at the elbow & extending down the forearm around the wrist and into the palm |
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| Sino-atrial node (S-S Node) |
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| small body of specailzed muscle tissue in the wall of the right atrium of the heart |
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| force that blood exerts on blood vessels |
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| the phase of the heart beat when the heart muscle relates & allows the chambers to fill with blood |
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| the phase of the heartbeat when the heart muscle contracts & pumps blood from the chambers into the arteries |
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