GEN BIO REVIEWER

• Sweet potato


  Can be reproduce through tubers
• Spore


  Asexual reproductive cells
• Unisexual


  Plants that contain either male or female parts
• Pollination


  Process where the pollen grains are transferred from the anther to the stigma of the same or different flower
• Parthenogenesis


  Reproduction process of honeybee
• Stomach


  Muscular sac that contains gastric juices that help break down the food chemically
• Small intestine


  Tube that contains villi which absorb the nutrients and water coming from the food
• Gallbladder


  Secretes bile to the small intestine, which uses it to break down fats. It is considered an accessory organ because food does not directly pass through it.
• Roots and leaves


  Primary structures of plants involved in photosynthesis
• Carnivorous plants do undergo photosynthesis
• Passage of food in the digestive system

  1. mouth

  2. esophagus

  3. stomach

  4. intestines

  5. anus
• Open circulatory system


  The blood flows freely through cavities since there are no vessels to conduct the blood
• Coronary circulation


  Movement of blood through the tissues of the heart
• Pulmonary circulation


  Movement of blood from the heart to the lungs, and back to the heart
• Systemic circulation


  Movement of blood from the heart to the rest of the body, excluding the lungs
• Amphibian circulatory system


  Three-chambered heart that has two atria and one ventricle
• Fish circulatory system


  Single circuit with two-chambered heart that has only a single atrium and a single ventricle
• Arteries


  Thick and elastic red-colored muscular wall that carries blood away from the heart
• Xylem


  Vascular tissue that carries water and minerals upward, from the roots to its different parts
• Octopus


  Have the most complicated nervous system among invertebrates, with neurons that are organized in specialized lobes
• Somatic NS


  Division of the PNS that is directly involved in relaying motor commands to muscles and controls voluntary movements