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Answer Key To Inside The Living Body

The document summarizes key facts about the human body from birth through old age in 3 sentences or less per stage of development. It covers topics like brain development in babies, puberty changes caused by hormones, tissue regeneration rates, effects of stress and menopause, and how organs like the brain and eyes deteriorate with advanced age. The document provides a comprehensive yet concise overview of the living body's amazing abilities and aging process from infancy to the senior years.

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Answer Key To Inside The Living Body

The document summarizes key facts about the human body from birth through old age in 3 sentences or less per stage of development. It covers topics like brain development in babies, puberty changes caused by hormones, tissue regeneration rates, effects of stress and menopause, and how organs like the brain and eyes deteriorate with advanced age. The document provides a comprehensive yet concise overview of the living body's amazing abilities and aging process from infancy to the senior years.

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Answer Key to Inside the Living Body

Birth of baby
1. What is the chemical blueprint of life that is housed in the nucleus of every human cell?
DNA

2. What is our most important breath?


The first one (of 700 million!)

3. Where are the alveoli and how do they work?


In the lungs, they are tiny air sacs (30 million of them) that pull oxygen into our blood and pump out the
carbon dioxide.

4. How many messages does the developing brain send?


100 trillion calculations per second

5. Why does breast milk help a baby stay healthy?


Fighting disease and protecting against bacteria are all benefits.

1 month old
6. How are smells detected?
Specialized nerves dangle in the air stream and detect chemicals in the air. They send messages to the
brain that interpret the signals as smells.

7. Where are the smallest bones in the body?


Inside our ear, on the other side of our ear drum. They help us hear.

8. Why do loud noises affect our hearing over time?


Loud noises will damage the tiny hairs inside our inner ears that help us detect noise.

9. Describe a baby’s vision for the first month.


It is black and white!

10. If our eyes see upside down, why do we see right side up?
Our brains correct the image for us.

11. When do baby’s finally have 20/20 vision?


6-8 months of age

2 Years
12. How many words do 2-year-olds learn each day?
10 new words a day

5 Years
13. How do thoughts work?
100 billion nerve cells communicate with electric impulses that are tiny fragments of thoughts or
memories.

14. How does the brain learn?


Our ears convert the sounds to electrical impulses, and the brain rewires itself with axons making new
connections and these make patters—the patters are memories!
9 Years
15. How do we recall memories?
When someone asks us to recall a memory, the pattern of axons fires again and the memory “comes
alive.”

11 Years
16. What part of the brain controls puberty?
Hypothalamus, the same region that controls body temperature; puberty starts when a hormone is
released in a chain reaction throughout the body.

17 Years
17. What are the some of the major changes for both boys and girls during puberty? What hormones cause these
changes?
Girls begin to ovulate and experience changes to the body due to estrogen. Boys begin to produce
sperm, get longer vocal cords (deeper voices), more hair growth, double the muscle, and all changes are
due to 10 times more testosterone in the body.

21 Years
18. Why do we look and feel better in our 20’s than any other time in our lives?
Our body is constantly regenerating new cells to replace the old ones as we die. We feel good in our 20’s
because we are in our prime.

19. How often do our tissues regenerate?


Essentially, every 10 years we have a “new” body.

20. How much hair do we grow every year?


Each person grows 7 miles of hair a year! (This is average, and includes all body hair, not just hair on
our head—it does fluctuate for each person.)

21. How does exercise help grow muscles?


The cells rip apart and then regenerate new tissue to grow the muscle.

22. What types of activities can cause irreparable damage to our bodies and why?
Loud noises damage the small hairs in our inner ear. Alcohol can keep our brain neurons from firing and
block messages from being received.

45 Years
22. How much dust have we created by 45 years old?
30,000 new skin cells are made every minute because we are constantly shedding them. We make
over 400 pounds of dust from old skin cells are what we make by age 45.

23. What chemical in our body degrades and causes wrinkles?


Ultra violet radiation degrades the stuff that holds skin cells together: Collagen. As the collagen gets
damaged, it doesn’t do its job as well and our skin loses elasticity.

24. How do our eyes change when we age?


Inner lens cells along with heart cells and brain cells are some of the cells our body never replaces. As we
get older the lenses stiffen and don’t focus as well-plus our eyes produce less fluid to push out debris.

25. Why do we gain weight, as we get older?


The body’s metabolism changes and it is easier to put on weight. Hormones like testosterone, estrogen,
and growth hormones decrease and we lose muscle mass. Approximately 6.5 lbs of muscle is lost during
every decade of our adult lives. Less muscle means the body burns fewer calories, so we need less fuel
“food.” If we eat the same amounts, extra food is stored as fat.

50 years
26. What happens when we are stressed?
Fight or flight reflex comes on and hormones, adrenaline, cortisol, pump into the blood. Our arteries
constrict, blood pressure increases and our cardiovascular system is damaged. Blood vessels get damaged
as the blood pumps the arteries harden. This can cause the heart to enlarge.

28. What is a stroke?


Rupturing of blood vessels in the brain.

29. What happens during menopause?


A woman’s ovaries stop releasing eggs, and progesterone and estrogen stop being produced. This signals
the end of reproduction. This reduction in hormones affects the brain, the hypothalamus is affected and
there are hot flashed. The aging process begins to accelerate.

70 Years
30. How much does our brain shrink by 70? 50%

31. How does our hearing decrease? Through years of damage and bone loss

32. What happens every time our cells divide?


DNA is copied, and cells split into 2. Copies of copies get worse, more out of focus over the years. The
imperfections in our DNA keep happening over and over.

33. What is the last sense to go when we die?


Hearing is the last sense to go.

34. How long does it take for our skin cells and brain cells to die?
Our skin cells will keep dividing for about 24 hours.

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