- Digestion:
- How long does it actually take to digest food?
- How long are the intestines? Is this the same in everyone?
- What parts can be replaced, and with what?
- Order of operations.
- How things are broken down and used in different parts of our bodies?
- Circulatory:
- What is involved?
- What does it do?
- How is this system effected?
- Why do people have different blood types?
- Why are my feet always cold?
- Role in migraines?
- What happens in trauma - mass blood loss?
- Excretory:
- What does it involve?
- What does it do?
- Anything.
- As much as possible...but not too much.
- Respiratory:
- Does it involve your mouth and nose, or just lungs?
- What diseases exist, and what are their characteristics?
- How does it recovers?
- What does it look like when it is damaged/difficult to breathe, etc?
- Reproductive:
- What would happen if you were born without a reproductive system?
- Why is it so hard on your body?
- Why does it take so long (9 months)?
- How does it develop at different ages/stages in life?
- Bones & Skeletal:
- What do they do for our body besides hold us all together?
- Why don't bones completely decompose?
- Are their such things as bone transfusions?
- Why don't bones bleed?
- How do bones heal when broken?
- How is bone tissue produced?
- How does arthritis happen?
- What are they made up of?
- Nervous
- How many nerves do we have? (approximately)
- What part of the brain does what?
- How are signals sent to the brain?
- Diseases.
- How does the brain and nervous system react to different situations?
- Endocrine:
- What does it involve?
- What does it do?
- Anything.
- Does this system just influence the reproductive system?
*be able to define 'anatomy' and 'physiology'
*know all ten characteristics
*know the five factors that life is dependent on
*define homeostasis
have an understanding of how cellular biology is linked to this unit
*know the organ system types
