Cells and body systems

Cells group into tissues, tissues into organs and organs into systems, so each level does a job the level below cannot.

A worked example

Cells lining an airway form tissue, the lung is the organ, and with the trachea and diaphragm it makes the respiratory system.

The mistake people actually make

A dividing population doubles each time, so the growth multiplies rather than adds. Count how many divisions fit into the time before you multiply. A tissue is cells of one kind; an organ is several tissues working together.

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