Proteins - answer✔necessary for the body's maintenance, growth and repair
Carbohydrates - answer✔the starches and sugars present in foods
Fats - answer✔nutrient that stores energy, cushions organs, and helps the body absorb vitamins
Minerals - answer✔substances that the body cannot manufacture but that are needed for forming
healthy bones and teeth and regulating many vital body processes
Fiber - answer✔provides bulk which allows the large intestine to carry away waste matter
Water - answer✔essential for survival; the body loses approximately four pints of water each day
Arthropods - answer✔a huge animal phylum that includes insects, spiders and crustaceans
Exoskeletons - answer✔External skeletons
Vertebrate - answer✔having a backbone or spinal column
Endoskeletons - answer✔internal skeletons
Ligaments - answer✔tissue that connects bone to bone
Respiration - answer✔the process by which blood cells absorb oxygen and eliminate carbon
dioxide and water vapor
Circulatory System - answer✔Functions to transport nutrients throughout the body and get rid of
wastes such as carbon dioxide
Gametes - answer✔reproductive cells
Gene - answer✔a unit of inheritance
Genotype - answer✔genetic makeup, including both dominant and recessive alleles
Phenotype - answer✔how a person's genes express themselves in physical characteristics
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