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Digestive System

The digestive system is an important system. It is the system that keeps you from not starving. Mouth The mouth is where it all starts. When you eat, saliva and teeth help break down food. It then goes to the esophagus then to the stomach. Stomach It helps digest food. Breaking it down and mixing it even more. After being further broken down it goes to the small intestine. Liver and Pancrease This organs will release enzymes to the small intestine. Small Intestine The small intestine is a large tube. It absorbs digested food. Waste goes to the large intestine. Large Intestine The large intestine is a tube like the small intestine. The large intestine releases waste through the anus as feces.

Arthropoda and Annelids

Arthropoda and annelids are types of invertebretes. As you may already know invertebrates are animals without spines. Annelid Annelids are known as segmented worms. Some examples of annelids are earthworms and leeches. They can help make soil more fertile. They can reproduce asexually and sexually. Arthropod Arthropods are insects. They have exoskeletons which is a skeleton on the outside. Some examples are crabs and beetles. Most arthropods lay eggs.

Vascular and Non-Vascular Plants

Plants are living organisms. We can classify them in two ways. Vascular and non-vascular plants Vascular Plants Vascular Plants are plants with the parts xylem and phloem. Xylem carries water absorbed by roots. Phloem carries food or sugar for the plant. Non-Vascular Plants Non-Vascular Plants are the opposite. They don't have xylem or phloem. Instead they absorb water through osmosis. Kind of like soaking water with a sponge

Protists and Fungi

Protists and fungi are one of the types of living organisms. They aren't animals or plants, but kind of behave like them. Protists Protists are a type of organism. They are singled-celled organisms. They also live on water. They move around using body parts like cilia. They also eat stuff unlike other single-celled organisms. Fungi Fungi could be single called or multi cellular. Fungi help decompose organic waste. Some fungi are mushrooms. They could reproduce both sexually and asexually. They could also be parasites. One fungi could control the ant's brains.

Viruses

What happens when a virus gets in you? Well the virus will start invading cells.  Where they could create more copies of themselves.  They create copies of themselves using the cell's functions. Which do the same thing. If your cell spotted the virus. It would kill it immeadetly. The cell would warn other cells about the virus. Immune cells will probably be trying to kill the virus by this time. The cell would create antibodies if needed The next time you get sneezed by a person, remember the immune system in all its complexity.