CAS BI 315- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 32 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Physiology- study of how living organisms function- study of function of organ systems in body. [from individual mols to complex processes that depend on integrated functions in the body] Gone wrong; some disease states are viewed as this. Physiologists ultimate goal?- study all parts of organism (down to individual molecule) to gain a greater understanding of whole body. Each cell begins as a single cell that divides into two, which divide into four. *if cells just multiplied like this, the result would be a spherical mass of identical cells: cell differentiation (occurs during development) Each cell becomes specialized for the performance of a specific fxn. Epithelial cells: tissues collection of a individual sub type of cell that is linked by some type of junction has formed some type of structure. Formally defined as an aggregate of a single type of specialized cell however also used to describe the general cellular fabric of any organ structure (ex.
