[BIO 205] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (81 pages long)
6 Feb 2017
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Course introduction: today"s lecture covers general information and terminology related to the study of anatomy. This includes concepts and facts that you will use throughout the rest of this course as well as in your professional career: definitions, biology: study of living organisms. Subdivisions of biology: physiology: concerned with the functioning of the body, anatomy: that branch of knowledge concerned with structure or morphology of the body. When we break the word down into it"s parts, we find that the term. The term dissect is the latin equivalent for the greek term anatomy. The latin prefix dis means apart the suffix sectare means to cut. This describes what we have to do in order to learn about anatomy, we dissect in order to see the anatomy of the body. Cells tissues microanatomy: structures are seen with the aid of a microscope.
