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Cells: the body's building bricks
In this set we shall be revising information about some cells, tissues and organs in plants and animals.
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Biology
6th Grade
04/27/2013

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Aristotle lived in ______ 2000 years ago.
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Greece
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Aristotle was interested in _____
Definition
plants and animals and how the human body works
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Aristotle drew ___.
Definition
parts of the human body.
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Parts of the human body are called ____.
Definition
organs.
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The Greek's weren't the only people interested in ___.
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how the human body works.
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Also studied by people from China and ___.
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Middle East.
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Plants have organs

True/False
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true
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Information about organs came from ___.
Definition
operations and cutting up dead bodies.
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Now we can get information about organs from ___.
Definition
body scans and x-rays.
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Who did post-mortems?
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Xavier Bichat.
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What are post-mortems?
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Operations done on dead people to find out what killed them.
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Each human organ contains ___.
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more than one kind of material.
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How many types of tissues did Bichat find?
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21
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Bichat needed a ___ to see details of tissue structures.
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microscope
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What are made up of the same type of cells and are the building blocks of an organ
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Tissues.
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When were microscopes invented?
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16th Century.
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Why were the lenses not clear?
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The lenses weren't good.
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How many lenses did the first microscopes have?
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One.
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What were microscopes with one lens called?
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Simple Microscopes.
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Who made the first microscope with two lenses?
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Hans and Zacharias Janssen.
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What do you call microscopes with two lenses?
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Compound Microscopes.
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Which English scientist built a compound microscope?
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Robert Hooke.
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What did Robert Hooke use compound microscopes for?
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Seeing things that were too small for the naked eye.
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When did Robert Hooke publish the book of drawings of microscopic structures?
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1665
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