Essay On Human Body

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The human body is an amazing thing made up of many different parts. These parts are cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems. For starters, one type of cell makes up one type of tissue. Next, two or more types of tissues make an organ. Then, a few organs working together make an organ system. Each of the organ systems in your body have a certain function, or job. Working together, all of these organ systems make up an organism. In other words, cells make up tissues, tissues make up organs, organs make up organ systems, and organ systems make an organism. To begin with, cells are the basic unit of life. There are millions of these cells inside the human body, and each has a different type of responsibility, or function. There are an infinite amount of cell types, and a few examples of these types are: 1) muscle cells, 2) nerve …show more content…

Some examples are the circulatory, the excretory, the muscle, and the digestive systems. For example, the digestion system is an organ system that digests the food a person eats. Some organs in the digestive system are the esophagus, rectum, stomach, liver, gall bladder, pancreas, large intestine, small intestine, and appendix. The digestive system is very important because without it, organisms would not be able to digest food. Food would just sit inside the body or go through it without the body taking any energy for fuel. The digestive system is located around the stomach area. Along with the digestive system, many other organ systems all work together to create an organism. An example of this would be if a person eats a sandwich and then goes for a run. During the run, the circulatory system helps the body breathe, the muscle system helps the bones move, and all the while the digestive system digests the food. Later on, the excretory system gets rid of the waste, or food that the body can’t use for nourishment. All of these organ systems need to help to make up the