Immune System Blog Post: Human Body 2.0

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Basics of the Immune System

The immune system is your bodies defensive mechanism, if you will. Its function is to protect you from harmful, infectious viruses. The immune system is very crucial for your body, and without it, you would have tons of fatal diseases infecting you body. The immune systems primary organs are the thymus and bone marrow, and the secondary organs include the spleen, tonsils, lymph vessels, lymph nodes, adenoids, skin, and liver. Each of the organs serve each part of the body, and protect that part from infectious disease from spreading.

Interactions With Other Systems 

The immune system interacts very closely with the circulatory system. This is because the white blood cells need a path to run through. The immune system relies on the circulatory to carry around your white blood cells. These blood cells are crucial for fighting off the viruses and unwanted bacteria that enters your body. This is how the immune system interacts with other systems. 

Analogy

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I believe that the immune system acts like soldiers in your body. I think of this because they both do a type of fighting for something they belong to. Let me put this into perspective, the solider fight for their country that they belong to, and fight the apposing enemy. On the other side of the coin, the immune system belongs to the organism, and (fights off) the bacteria and viruses that try to enter you body.

Structure and Function Relations

The structure and function of the bone marrow in the immune system are very closely related. I think this because of the bone marrows sensitivity. Because of the bone marrows weak points, it has to be very productive in white cell production. This is it main function. The bone marrow can receive signals through the immune system, so it know how many white blood cells it needs to produce. This is how the structure of the immune system relates to its function.

Sources - http://www.healthhype.com, Brainpop - Immune system, www.biology4kids.com

Nervous System Blog Post: Human Body 2.0

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Basics of the Nervous System

The nervous system is the channel of nerves in your body. There are nerves all over your body and stimulate the senses in each of your body parts. The main function of the nervous system is for your brain to have a pathways to tell all of your body parts, and muscles, what to do. The only actual organ of your nervous system is the brain, and maybe the spinal cord, however, there are several other parts in the nervous system. These include nerves, nervous tissues, meninges, and the different type of sense organs, which stimulate all 5 of your senses. These senses include sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell. Let me try to give a rundown of all the rest of the functions. The meninges function is to protect the central nervous system. The nerves and nervous tissue are the signal transmitters between the brain and the event your body is experiencing. The brains function is to, in short, tell your body what to do. And finally your spinal cords function is to carry information up and down your spine. As a matter a fact, without your spinal cord, you physically, couldn't survive. You cant move any part of your body and your organs wouldn't be able to function. See the importance now?

Interactions With Other Systems

The nervous system works closely with literally every system in a organism. It controls your organs both unconsciously, and consciously. Let my try to give as many relations as I can. In your muscular and skeletal system, you brain tells your muscles and your bones to move in certain directions. In your digestive and urinary system, even though you don't notice it, it all happens unconsciously. Your organs are told what to through your nervous system. The only thing you have control over is when you need to pee, or take a dump. same goes for your respiratory system, you control when you want to breath, and your nervous system takes care of actually preforming it. This is how you nervous system interacts with other systems.

Analogy

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I think that the nervous system, can be compared to a type of controller. I think of this because all the different buttons on the controller, can represent the different thing your brain tells your  body to do. When you press a button on the controller, the thing (character, cursor, navigator) reacts to it. This is exactly like in the nervous system. When your brain (the button being pressed) sends signals through your nerves (the wire) to tell the part of your body to do (character, navigator). This is why I think the the nervous system can be compared to an N64, I mean *clears throat*, (insert name here) controller.

Structure and Function Relations

The structure and function of the nervous system are pretty closely related. I think this because in a nerve, there are several different parts that help it transmits signals to your body. A nerve is mainly made of axons. These axons allow information to be sent up and down the nerve. Because a nerve is made of axons (structure) It can transmit signals to your brain (function). I'm sorry, I really couldn't think of anything better for this one. I know i'm getting a low score for structure and function. Oh well at least I tried.

Here are my Sources: www.boundless.com, www.biology4kids.com, wikipedia, Brainpop - Nervous system

Urinary System Blog Post: Human Body 2.0

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Basics of the Urinary System

The urinary system is a very important system in our body. This system's main job  is to filter liquids taken into our body, and separate the nutrients, from the waste product. The urinary system filters the liquid in the kidneys, and gets rid of the waste product by exiting the bladder. This system is comprised of a few key organs. The names of these organs are the kidneys, ureters, urethra, and of course, the bladder. Let me talk about the functions of these organs. Like I said before, the function of the kidneys is to filter the liquids from the waste and nutrients. It absorbs the nutrients and the circulatory system takes the nutrients to other parts of the body, this is because the circulatory system passes through both kidneys. In this process, urine is produced to balance the amount of salts produced in your body. Bladders function is to obviously, hold the water. The ureters carry the urine from your kidney to you bladder, and the urethra is to carry urine out of the body.

Interactions with other systems

Like I said before, the urinary system works very closely with the circulatory system. This is because there are parts of the circulatory system that go through the kidney to get the nutrients, so that it can be given to the cells in your body. But what you probably did suspect, is how well the digestive system works with the urinary system. Once all the food is broken down, and goes down to the small and large intestines for the nutrients to be absorbed from the food, and access liquid, such as from the water you drink, filters into your kidneys. Than the process of the urinary system starts. Both of these system work very closely together and rely on each other to get rid of the waste that isn't needed in you body.

Analogy

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I believe that the urinary system can be compared to a water filter. I think of this because the filter part of the water filter is like your kidneys. In your kidneys, it take out the nutrients from the liquids you consumed, and take out the waste product through peeing. This is flip flopped for the water filter because it takes out the bad stuff in the water and produces the good stuff. even though it is the other way around, both of the are a type of filtrtation system for liquids. This is why I think that the urinary system can be compared to a water filter

Structure and Function Relations

The structure of the urinary, is pretty relevant to the function. Because the bladder is expandable, it can hold quite a bit of urine. This is because its made out of a internal sphincter muscle that allows the urinary system to expand and contract. This allows urine to be stored at a reasonable amount. Once 200 ml of urine or so are stored in your bladder, the autonomic nerve is stimulated telling your brain that you gotta go pee. So in short, the structure of the bladder, being expandable, serves its function of being able to store urine effectively.

Sources: Brainpop - Urinary System, http://www.womens-health-advice.com/urinary-system, www.biology4kids.com

Muscular System Blog Post: Human Body 2.0

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Basics of the Muscular System

The muscular system, is a very important system in a human. It provides movement through your body, and pretty much, is how you push and pull things effectively. There are several types of muscles. These types include skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscle. The cardiac muscles are in charge of pumping blood through your body, and the skeletal muscles contract and relax along your bones, making it so you can do many different movements by supplying strength throughout your bones, such as moving your legs, arms, torso and neck. These are also called voluntary muscles, because these are the only parts of your body you have control over. These are the different types of muscles or organs in the muscular system, as well as the function of the system

Interaction with other systems
The muscular system works closely with the nervous system. This is because your muscles receive messages from your brain, which travel down to your muscles to perform actions. This system is called the autonomic nervous system. Even though this true, sometimes you don't even have to think before you do a movement. These types of movements are are known as reflexes. An example of the is if a ball is coming towards you, and you hear it coming, you will mostly probably automatically move out of the way. some people have a lot better reflexes than others, and that is because their muscles have more experience with that type of stuff, so their muscles were trained to act on their own.

Analogy

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I believe that the muscular system can be compared to a light switch. It might not make much sense right now, but let me explain. See, the muscular systems voluntary and involuntary muscles can be compared to the on, and off functions of a light switch. The involuntary will always be "off" as far as your nervous system can see it. This is the exact opposite for the voluntary muscles. For the voluntary muscles the nervous thinks the switch is always flipped on. Also, the light or action responding to the switch, is as if you were to preform that action. This is why I think that the muscular system can be compared to a light switch. Wait a second, I just thought of something. Don't you think that a remote control is more like an analogy type of thing for the muscular system. Oh wait never mind that wouldn't make much sense. Actually I can use that for the nervous system! Huh weird.

Structure and Function Relations

The structure and function of the muscular system, I believe, are very closely related. I think of this because for some parts of the digestive system, are aligned with involuntary muscles. These muscles help push food along the digestive system. See the structure of the muscle, being a smooth muscle, supports the function. I'm really sorry I couldn't think of anything better, but this is how the structure of the muscular system supports the function.

Sources: Brainpop - Muscles, Biology4kids, kidshealth.org

Skeletal System Blog Post: Human Body 2.0

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Basics

The skeletal system is very important to your body. It supports pretty much everything in your body and without them, you would just be a blob of muscle and skin. it also helps you move around The skeletal system is made of joints and bones. A joint is where two or more bones meet, and supports movement. Some of these joints include the pivot, hinge, ball and socket, and gliding joints.

System It Works With

The skeletal system works closely with all the systems, but mainly protects your muscular system. This is because without your bones, your body would be able to have shape and move. The bones work with muscle by allowing muscle to move along the skeleton, allowing you to do things that require muscles such as lifting, pulling, or over all picking up items. The stronger your muscles, the more you could pick up and the more you could push and pull.

Analogy

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I think that the skeletal system can be compared to a drawer. I think this because without a drawer, its items would just be scattered all over the place, without having a place to be, just like it is with the skeletal system, it keeps all the systems in place. However, because the drawer gives it a place to stay, the items can be accessed and serve a purpose. The drawer also helps gives mobility, allowing to to draw out and in, just like the skeletal system giving mobility in your body. The drawer also serves as a divider among the utensils, just as it is shown in the picture. This could be compared to each system having a spot in the organism. The drawers also protect the items, just like the bones protecting the muscular system. Overall, the point is, without the drawer, utensils wouldn't have a place to be, as well as the systems in an organism would have a place to be without the bones to hold them in place. This is why I think the skeletal system could be compared to a drawer.

Structure and Function Relations

The structure and function of the skeletal are closely related. This is because the structure of your bones, being hollow, allow you to move around with being dragged down to the ground. These hollow bones are very beneficial if you are doing a lot of movement. Even though these bone are hollow, they are still strong. This is because they have several layers to protect themselves.

Sources - Brainpop: Skeleton, Brainpop: Joints, www.biology4kids.com

Circulatory System Blog Post: Human Body 2.0

The Basics the Circulatory System 

The circulatory system is a very unique, and vital system to our body. The circulatory system, also known as the cardiovascular system, carries blood through your body. The circulatory system is in charge of supplying your cells with energy and the nutrients they need, through the power of blood vessels. The noble organ of the circulatory system is the heart. That is because the heart is extremely important in the circulatory, heck, even out of your whole body! Without your heart, blood wouldn't be able to pump through your body. Some other parts in this system are the different types of blood vessels. These include the arteries, veins, and capillaries. Blood vessels are the parts of your body that carry your blood so that each part of your cells get the nutrients they need.

Analogy 

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I beleive that the circulatory system can be compared to the gasoline pipes in a car. The gasoline being blood, and the pipes it runs through, being the blood vessles.

Interaction With Other Systems

Your circulatory system pretty much work with every organ in your body. this is because your organs need their specific nutrients in order to function. I suppose the closest system it works with it probably the respiratory system. This is because every time you breath, you breath in O2, or oxygen. You circulatory system carries that oxygen through to ensure that all of your cells are supplied with oxygen. After this process is done, your circulatory system carries out the CO2 out of your body. This is how the circulatory system works with other systems.

Structure and Function Relations

The structure and the function of the circulatory work well together. This is shown in the heart, where your blood is pumped. This is because your heart has 4 chambers. This structure serves its function by allowing your blood to travel in several directions through your blood vessels. Without even one of these 4 chambers, we wouldn't be able to supply a big part of our body with the blood they need. The bottom line is, because there are several chambers in your heart (structure), blood can be supplied through your body (function)

Sources - www.biology4kids.com, brainpop - circulatory system, www.kidshealth.com

Respiratory System Blog Post: Human Body 2.0

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Basics of the Respiratory System

The respiratory system is a very crucial system to our body. This systems job is to get oxygen flowing into your lungs, and out you nose, or mouth. Oxygen is important for your body because it supply's the nutrients that your cells need. The organs in the respiratory system include the lungs, nose, mouth, trachea, bronchi, larynx, and pharynx. The function of the nose an mouth are the entrance for the air to flow, as simple as that. The function of the lungs is to hold the oxygen you take in, and take the carbon dioxide produced in your body out. The function of the trachea is to create an airway, so air can circulate in and out of the lungs. Your bronchi are used to carry the oxygen from the trachea to your lungs. Your larynx is, put simply, your voice box. And Finally your pharynx is the carrier of air inhaled through your mouth. That a rundown of all the basics.

Interaction with Other Systems

The respiratory system works very closely with the circulatory system, as well as it goes visa-versa. Here's why. Your circulatory system carries oxygen through your body to provide nutrients for your cells. Your respiratory system is the one that supply's the oxygen. Why don't we dig a little deeper? Your lungs are very closely connected with the circulatory system. Actually your heart is dead in the center in-between both lungs. This allows the oxygen produced in the lungs, able to enter your bloodstream, and flow through your body.

Analogy

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I believe that a bike pump can be closely compared to the respiratory system. I think this because both of their functions are very similar. I think of this because when you pull the handle up of the pump, it takes in air, to be stored in the center pump for however long its needed. This is very similar to oxygen entering your lungs. After the pump preforms this action, when you push down the handle, the air is pushed into the object you are trying to inflate. This is as if your were exhaling and letting out carbon dioxide. This is why I think a pump is like the respiratory system

Structure and Function

The structure of your lungs being expandable, greatly benefits its function. This is because, if your lungs weren't able to expand as far as they can now, they would barely be able to hold any air. This is because your lungs expansion (structure) allows air to be stored in your lungs (function). As you can clearly see, these two greatly support each other and are crucial for a well functioning respiratory system.

Sources - http://www.innerbody.com/anatomy/respiratory, www.biology4kids.com, Brainpop - Respiratory system

Cellular Reproduction and Human Body Studies: Weekly Blog #7

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Summary

This week, we further studied cell reproduction, as well as division of labor amongst cells. Division of labor is when a group of cell preform a function, and ensure that the organism is effectively preforming the job and smooth running. Division of labor is divided into separate parts of the body. Some examples of this could be shown as multiple tissues that work together to create an organ, or multiple organs that work together to create the systems of the organism. This is what we studied in science this

S&EP - Asking Questions and Defining Problems

I established what is already known about the cell reproduction and how cells work together to create a working organism. I did this by studying the cell division of labor and concluded that there are several vital systems that our body need to operate. these systems include the digestive system, nervous system, and skeletal system just to name a few. This is how I asked questions and defined problems in science this week.

XCC - Systems and System models

This relates to the topic we studied this week because we talked about how all the systems work together to create an organism. This system is composed of the digestive system, nervous system, and skeletal system just to name a few. These systems work together to create a smooth functioning organism.

Digestive System: Human Body 2.0 Blog Post

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The Basics About the Digestive System

The digestive systems function is to break down the food as you eat so your body can use the food for its nutrients. The digestive systems organs include the pancreas, liver, small intestine, large intestine, gallbladder, esophagus, salivary glands (In the mouth), and rectum 

The Digestive system work with the urinary system. They work together because when the digestive system takes in a liquid, it absorbs the nutrients that are in the liquid and then leaves the rest the the urinary system. This system is used to drain out the access liquid your body doesn't need. is the one that drains it out 

Analogy

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I believe that the Digestive system can be compared to a cement mixer. I think this because when the digestive system is digesting food, it breaks it down and turns it into chyme (similar to the mixed cement) the chyme than goes through a process to be solidified (like the cement being solidified) to be turned into poop (the cement block) This is why I think the Digestive system is like a cement mixer.

Structure and Function of the Digestive System

The structure of the large intestine affects its function because of its size. the large intestine is wide, but has a passage for the thin and watery chyme to go through. This function is supported by the structure because if it wasn't wide, the chyme wouldn't be able to circulate through the large intestine, thus making the large intestine an important organ. This is how the structure and function support each other.

Sources: www.brainpop.com and www.kidshealth.org

The Wonderful Study Of Diffusion and Mitosis: Weekly Blog #6

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Summary

This week in science class, we studied about mitosis as well as finished up our diffusion studies. Diffusion is the travel of particles from an area of high concentration, to an area of low concentration. Osmosis is similar to diffusion accept for a solution, such as water. Traveling through a membrane from an area of high concentration of, lets just say salt, to an area with a lower concentration of salt. The other subject we studied about this week was mitosis. Mitosis is a cycle in which cells are duplicated, or multiplied. Starting at the inter phase and ending in the cytokines (where the cell is fully duplicated) mitosis is a relatively slow process, or fast process if you are developing cancer cells.

S&EP - Communicating Information

I used scientific text to find important. information, evidence and ideas. I read about mitosis in our text books, as well as on the gizmos. This led me to understand the process of the process of mitosis, and how cells are replicated. In the gizmo, it was showing a time lapsed process of mitosis, and further improved my understanding of the subject.

XCC - Stability and Change

There is a great example of stability and change in the process of mitosis. When the new cells are formed, there is a great change in the chromosomes of the cell. Even though the DNA is the same, there is still a difference in how the cell was developed. The cells must stabilize the amount of cells formed in order to be replicated`

In Depth: Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration: Weekly Blog #5

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Summary

This week in science, we studied photosynthesis further in depth. We also studied cellular respiration, and how it works with photosynthesis. We breath in oxygen (O2) and than exhale carbon dioxide ( CO2). Besides the carbon dioxide we exhale, we also exhale water vapor. The plants in photosynthesis take in water for the ground, as well as from the air. They than use the water (H20), carbon dioxide (CO2) as well as light energy to create 2 products.  These products are know as glucose (C6 H12 O6) and oxygen (O2). In Cellular Respiration, its almost like the situation gets flip flopped. The mitochondria uses the Glucose and Oxygen produced in the photosynthesis to create pyruvic acids. the pyruvic acids than go to the mitochondria to create water and carbon dioxide.

S&EP - Using Mathematics

I used mathematics and statistics to analyze data when I balanced out the equations of photosynthesis. In order to make sense of any equation, both sides must be balanced. For an example water (H2O) and Carbon Dioxide (CO2) added to light energy, cant turn in to Oxygen (O2) and Glucose (C6 H12 O6) without putting the amount it needs of atoms to balance it out. The balanced out equation should look like so. 6 H2O + 6 CO2 + Light energy = 6 O2 + C6 H12 O6. When we were balancing out the equation, we had to use mathematical elements in order to make it work.

XCC - Patterns

There is a very clear pattern in photosynthesis and cellular respiration. Like I explained in the summary, photosynthesis and cellular respiration work very closely together. In photo synthesis, the product is glucose and oxygen. In cellular respiration, the aerobic respiration in the cytoplasm. In the aerobic respiration, it takes the oxygen and glucose and converts in to pyruvic acids. Then, in the anaerobic respiration, the pyruvic goes into the mitochondria and produces water and oxygen. These are the patterns found in photosynthesis and cellular respiration.