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Levels of Organization

Jack Taylor

Period 1T
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The three levels of organization, chemical, cellular, and tissue, all contribute to the body

by putting the body in organization and all depend on each other to keep the body functioning.

They also all process homeostasis to keep balance in the body in order to keep it from collapsing

and resulting in death of the body. These three levels are the basis of how the whole human body

works.

The most basic level of the body would be the chemical level. It includes atoms which

are “the smallest units of matter that participate in chemical reactions,” (Principles of Anatomy

and Physiology). Atoms that include more than one combined together is called a molecule, and

they are essential to maintain parts of the body intact such as DNA and glucose. Since all things,

living and nonliving and have mass, are matter as it is categorized into solids, liquid, and gas.

These three categories are consisted of chemical elements and without them, there would be no

way for our body to correctly function. Examples of the three categories are blood plasma for

liquid, oxygen and carbon dioxide for gas, and bones for solid. All are necessities in our body

and consist major elements in each organ. For a real life example, if you are trying to play tennis

but you do not have a tennis racquet, it would be like missing a major element in our body like

oxygen because there is no way to function the job specified since oxygen of course is used for

our respiratory system. The chemical level is basis of the level of organization in the body.

The cellular system is where “molecules combine to form cells, the basic structural and

functional units of an organism,” (Principles of Anatomy and Physiology). Cells are tiniest living

units in the body and are basically everywhere throughout the body. There are many types of

cells in the body such as muscle cells to function the muscles, nerve cells to operate nervous

cells, epithelial cells to work the outside of organ and body, and 200 other specialized cells that

carry out other special actions in the body to contain homeostasis throughout the whole body.
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There is a reason why there are over 100 trillion cells in our body because that is how much is

needed to operate such a complicated structure. The cellular level has contributed an

unfathomable amount to function the body we have today by its’ unrealistic statistics.

Finally, the tissue level of the body is where many specialized cells

and products are made into distinct material called tissue. There are four types of tissue and they

are epithelial, muscle, nervous, and muscle which all contribute to homeostasis by the way they

all function and contribute together. “Connective tissue is made up of cells that form the body’s

structure. Epithelial tissue is made up of cells that line inner and outer body surfaces. Epithelial

tissue protects the body and its internal organs, Muscle tissue is made up of cells that have the

unique ability to contract, or become shorter. They also enable the body to move. Nervous tissue

is made up of neurons, or nerve cells, that carry electrical messages” (Organization of the

Human Body). As already stated in the levels of organization above, all these units of the body

build up to make something greater and help function the important organs in our body. This is

especially true for the tissues as they combine all the chemical and cellular parts of the body to

work on a specific part to function the human body. The tissue is the most complicated level of

the three levels and is extremely important for the outside of all parts of the body.

To conclude, all the levels of organization are to scale of chemical, cellular, and

tissue. They all connect to each other proportionally and are vital to function the body. The levels

of organization are obviously very vital to contributing to homeostasis and all the organs of the

human body.
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References

Tortora, G. J., Derrickson B.(2009). Principles of Anatomy and Physiology. Hoboken: John

Wiley & Sons,Inc.

CK-12 (2010). Organization of the Human Body, CK-12