BIOL 4330- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 210 pages long!)
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Exams: critical thinking*; short answer: she gives partial credit, don"t memorize facts apply// questions are clinically related, review: chapters 1-3 and 5 & 6, goal: grow intellectually in physiology. Skeletal muscles initiate oscillating contraction shivering generates heat: physiology asks why! How do they work: understand relationship between structure and function and put this together to explain how organs work. Integration of human organ system: there are many relationships they all work together, no organ system works in isolation. **most cells in humans cannot live without distribution from other body cells; most aren"t in direct contact with external body nutrients (oxygen) cells aren"t in contat with external environments: explains need for organization and need for interrelatedness. Anatomically, we are divided into 3 cavities: cranial- brain, meninges (ct layers that protect brain), cranial nerves, Bv, venous sinuses: thoracic cavity- organs (lungs) protected by ribs, abdomino-pelvic cavity- gi tract, liver, reproductive organs.