ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY

Semester A

• The body can be described, organized, and classified for understanding.
• There is a comprehensive language that applies to the structure of animals that is based in Latin and Greek.
• A tissue’s structure and location can affect its function.
• The integumentary system plays a crucial role as the body’s first defense against infection and illness.
• The skeletal system is the body’s main support structure.

Enduring Understandings of this course:

• The muscular system provides the body with movement, heat production, and protection.
• The nervous system is the control center of the human body.
• The digestive system changes food from an insoluble form to a soluble, absorbable form that the body can use.
• Blood is a specialized fluid that is involved in immunity, clotting mechanisms, and delivers nutrients to the body’s cells and transports waste away from that same body cell.