Life Processes of Living Things 1. Nutrition: the obtaining and processing of food materials. a. Ingestion: taking in food b. Egestion – removal of undigested food c. Digestion – breakdown of food d. Photosynthesis 2. Transport: the intake and distribution of materials throughout an organism. 3. Respiration: the release of energy from food by oxidation a. Breathing 4. Excretion: the removal of metabolic wastes from an organism. 5. Synthesis: the combining
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blood vessels, and nerve endings 3. Subcutaneous tissue (hypodermis)- the inner most layer. contains major vascular networks, fat, nerves, and lymphatics Function of the skin • Protection- protection of underlying structures from invasion by bacteria, noxious chemicals and foreign matter. • Sensory perception- transmits pain, touch, pressure, temperature, itching, etc • Fluid balance (excretion)- absorption of fluids and evaporation of excess. • Temperature regulation- produced
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you are drinking plenty of fluids, especially water. This prevents you from overheating yourselves. Last but not least, while we are all here to have fun, when you are in the canoes, whatever you do… Do not fall into Canoe Lake, there are harmful bacterias that live in there. 8th grade kids “Okay, okay, we will be careful!” Scene#2 Lake Narrator Boy and girl run and grab their canoes. They are having small talk while in their canoes. They begin to play around splashing water and 8th grade girl
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highly nutritious drink. It contains carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids. Bacteria, which is a prokaryotic cell, is found any nutritious place. Since milk is highly nutritious, it makes an ideal home for bacteria. Milk goes through pasteurization. This process reduces the number of bacteria and increases milks shelf life. It reduces the bacteria, but does not kills all of them. Putting it in the fridge slows down the speed of bacteria multiplying. Once you take it out the fridge, and leave it in room temperature
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year, are losing their ability to thwart disease. This means that, if the present trend continues, humanity will once again find itself facing the kinds of apocalyptic epidemics that have been man’s curse for all but the last century of history. Bacteria of many ilk, from the relatively innocuous streptococci that give most people a sore throat and a bit of fever, through the often lethal and fast-propagating tuberculosis and e.choli, are becoming resistant to antibiotic treatment. And while many
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The Problem of Auto-Correlation in Parasitology Cherice Moore ITT Technical Institute GE257 12/17/2014 Parasitology is a branch of biology that deals with the study of parasites, their hosts, and the relationship between them. Parasitologists try to get an understanding of the many various factors that regulate the outcome of infections, and how these variables can actually adjust to a different intervention or some other type of external variation. Since infections are not simple, and have
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The immune system is a network of cells that join together to combat the body against the attacks of a foreign invaders. These foreign invaders are mainly microbes such as parasites, fungi, and bacteria. Viruses are also considered foreign invaders to the body. The immune system’s job is to keep these foreign invaders out of the body. If some of them do come in the body, then it’s job is to kill them. A pathogen can be viewed as an infectious agent. It causes illness or disease to its host. It
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Unit 9 1. Using specific examples, explain the differences between infection & contamination. The entry and development (of many parasites) or multiplication of an infectious agent in the body of persons or animals. Infection is not synonymous with infectious disease; the result may be inapparent (see Inapparent infection) or manifest (see Infectious disease). The presence of living infectious agents on exterior surfaces of the body, or on articles of apparel or soiled articles, is not
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1) Haemophilus influenza requires hemin (X factor) to synthesize cytochromes and NAD (V factor) from other cells. For what does it use these two growth factors? What disease(s) does H. influenza cause? Haemophilus influenza is a pathogenic bacteria. Haemophilus influenza is usually found in the mucous membrane, respiratory tract, mouth, and intestinal tract. (Tortora &Funke, 2010) Haemophilus influenza causes meningitis in young kids, bacteremia (infection in the blood) earaches, epiglottis
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in point: You. Biologists do not know of any single organism on Earth that is composed of both eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells. However, many different types of prokaryotic cells, usually bacteria, can live inside larger eukaryotic organisms. Creepy, but true. We humans, for example, have trillions of bacteria living in our colons, not to mention in our mouths and stomachs and small intestines and…you get the picture. Despite the fact that we have gobs of prokaryotic cells living inside and on
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