Osmosis Jones: Part 2

Hey girls, so today we finished the movie Osmosis Jones. There are many parts of the movie that related to what we have learned in bio this year. One of the main things that I noticed was when Osmosis and Drix were talking to the virus in the streets the virus said that he was injected into the body. I notice that this is an example of active immunity. If you remember active immunity is when someone is injected with a vaccine, which is a dead or weakened form of a bacteria or virus.

Also when Osmosis and Drix were in the blackhead club there was a lever at the bar that said "bile". We learnt about bile in the digestive system. Bile is created in the liver and stored in the gull bladder.

The hypothalamus was also mentioned a lot throughout the movie. The hypothalamus deals with homeostasis. This is why when the bad virus takes a DNA bead from the hypothalamus Frank's temperature starts to go crazy. Because the hypothalamus was compromised it couldn't do it's job of keeping the body's temperature constant.

There were also minor hints about the circulatory system, in the movie. One was that the roads were either red or blue. These were supposed to be veins and arteries depending on the colour. (Veins were blue, and arteries were red) This is because veins carry deoxygenated blood thus causing them to be blue. Also the car chase took place on the superior venae cavae , which if you remember is the largest vein in the human body.

This movie also taught us that the highest temperature that the human body can reach is 108 degrees. And also that memories are stored in the subconscious part of the brain.

That's all I could find hoped you liked the movie!!!