Unit 4 Vocab

1. short, hairlike, rhythmically beating organelles on the surface of certain cells that provide mobility, as in protozoans, or move fluids

temporary outgrowth used by some microorganisms as an organ of feeding or locomotion

the system of organs and tissues, including the heart, blood, blood vessels, lymph, lymphatic vessels and glands, involved in circulating bl

the system of neurons, neurochemicals, and allied structures involved in receiving sensory stimuli, generating and coordinating responses, a

the system of glands that produce endocrine secretions that help to control bodily metabolic activity

) the maintenance of metabolic equilibrium within an animal by a tendency to compensate for disrupting changes

a large compartment, bounded by a double membrane, that contains the chromosomes and associated molecules and controls the characteristics a

the body's system of sense organs

any one-celled organism that lacks a distinct membrane-bound nucleus and has its genetic material in the form of a continuous strand forming

any member of the Eukarya, a domain of organisms having cells each with a distinct nucleus within which the genetic material is contained. E

any structure created by the skeleton of an organism

the system of muscles and tendons and ligaments and bones and joints and associated tissues that move the body and maintain its form

a thin membrane (a double layer of lipids) enclosing the cytoplasm of a cell; proteins in the membrane control passage of ions

plant tissue consisting of ducts or vessels that in the higher plants forms the system (vas′cular sys`tem) by which sap is conveyed through

The excretory system is the system of an organism's body that performs the function of excretion, the bodily process of discharging wastes.

the ratio between the water assimilated into the body and that lost from the body

pH is a measure of the acidity or basicity of an aqueous solution

A temperature is a numerical measure of hot or cold