The four types of cells/tissues
Organ system
One or more organs that work together to perform some function(s)
System made of skin
Integumentary
System consisting of brain, eyes, spinal cord, nerves
Nervous
System responsible for hormone secretion
endocrine
System responsible for human structure
skeletal
system responsible for movement
muscular
system consisting of heart and blood vessels
circulatory
system responsible for response to foreign objects
immune
system responsible for taking in oxygen
respiratory
system responsible for filtering waste products from the blood and removing the waste from the body.
urinary
system made up of genitals
reproductive
system responsible for absorbing nutrients and removing waste
digestive
fluid that is inside cells and makes up ~65% of body’s water
intracellular fluid
fluid that is outside of cells but inside the body. makes up ~35% of the body’s water
extracellular fluid
Fluid portion of the blood
Plasma
fluid within tissues with which cells are in contact
Interstitial Fluid (tissue fluid)
Roles of the Extracellular Matrix
nucleus
organelle that houses genes
Endoplasmic Reticulum
has one bilayer, synthesizes protein, stores calcium, and detoxifies poisons
golgi aparatus
has one bilayer, finishes construction of proteins from ER
Vesicles
1 bilayer, carries cargo within the cytoplasm
lysosomes
1 bilayer, digestive organelles, filled with hydrolytic enzymes
peroxisome
1 bilayer, neutralizes toxins