Apologia Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy & Physiology Chapter 1

anatomy

study of the human body and how it’s put together

physiology

study of how the human body works

dissect

to cut apart

organism

a living thing

quarantine

keeping someone away from others to prevent diseases spreading

hypothesis

an educated guess

spontaneous generation

life coming into existence from nonliving things

cadaver

dead body

cells

basic building blocks of life

nucleus

the core or center of a cell

cell membrane

the outer wall of the cell

organelles

tiny organs

cytoplasm

a jelly-like substance inside the cell

mitochondria

process food for energy

lysosomes

get rid of waste in a cell

golgi bodies

stores fats and proteins

endoplasmic reticulum (ER)

transports things around in the cell

ribosomes

create proteins

centrioles

help a cell to reproduce

DNA

carries the information of living things

genes

a tiny section of a chromosome

RNA

the messenger that carries instructions from the DNA

Tissue

a group of cells

Chromosomes

a group of genes