Easy Anatomy and Physiology (Platinum Edition)

How to work through this section of the course.

Read these notes from Chapter 2: An Easy Guide to Learning Anatomy and Physiology

Students will learn about how DNA replicates itself.

Students will learn about the process of DNA transcription and translation.

Test what you've learned about cells.

How to work through this section of the course.

Read these notes from Chapter 3: An Easy Guide to Learning Anatomy and Physiology

Identify the ATP-Phosphocreatine system, an anerobic system for making ATP.

Describe a basic overview of glycolysis.

Describe glycolysis in more detail.

Describe the Krebs (Citric Acid) cycle.

Describe the basic process of the electron transport chain.

Describe a more detailed version of the electron transport chain.

Test your knowledge of cell metabolism.

Read these notes from Chapter 4: An Easy Guide to Learning Anatomy and Physiology

Identify the structure and function of epithelial tissue.

Identify the structure and function of connective tissue.

Identify the structure and function of muscle tissue.

Identify the structure and function of nervous tissue.

Read these notes from Chapter 5: An Easy Guide to Learning Anatomy and Physiology

Describe the structure and function of the integument.

Work through the skeletal system unit.

Read these notes from Chapter 6: An Easy Guide to Learning Anatomy and Physiology

Describe the process for long bone formation.

Describe how flat bones are formed.

Students will learn about the structure of a long bone.

Identify the structure of the skull.

Identify the structure of the spine and ribcage.

Identify the structure of the bones of the shoulder, arm and hand.

Identify the bony structures of the lower extremity (hip, leg, foot).

Test what you have learned about the skeletal system.

Overview of the muscular system.

Read these muscular system notes from: An Easy Guide to Learning Anatomy and Physiology.

Describe muscle terms and types of contractions.

Identify major muscles of the human body.

Test your knowledge of types of muscle contractions and muscle anatomy.

Describe the physiology of muscle contraction.

Test your knowledge of muscle contraction physiology.

Overview of joints.

Read these notes from: An Easy Guide to Learning Anatomy and Physiology

Joint classification and basic anatomy of joints.

Students will learn the movements for the major synovial joints of the body.

Overview of the nervous system.

Read these notes from: An Easy Guide to Learning Anatomy and Physiology

Anatomical structures of the human brain.

Identify the anatomy of the spinal cord.

Identify the anatomy of the spinal nerve.

Learn about the sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions of the autonomic nervous system. 

Students will learn about drugs affecting the Sympathetic division of the Autonomic Nervous System.

Students will learn about drugs affecting the Parasympathetic division of the Autonomic Nervous System.

Describe how reflexes work.

Test what you have learned about the nervous system.

Test what you have learned about the cranial nerves.

Identify the processes involved in producing the resting membrane potential in a neuron.

Describe how neuron action potentials are generated.

Identify the process of saltatory conduction that occurs in myelinated axons.

Test what you have learned about neurons and electrical impulses.

Overview of the sensory system.

Read these sensory system notes from: An Easy Guide to Learning Anatomy and Physiology

Describe the structure and function of the somatic senses.

Describe the structure and function of the special senses of smell and taste.

Test what you have learned about the sensory system.

Identify anatomical structures and describe the function of the ear.

Identify anatomical structures and describe the function of the eye.

Test what you have learned about the eye and ear.