BIOL 118 Spring 2015

Exam 1 Topics

This course is about structure and function of the human anatomy.

Additionally, we will look at the mechanisms of action and regulation at several levels of scale:

   atomic / ionic

   molecular

   cellular

   tissue / organ

   whole organism

To study the various processes, we will often look at what happens when the mechanisms fail. I

will use diseases as examples, but for the rst exam, I do not expect you to know anything

about the specic diseases that we discusses in class only the concepts that they illustrate.

As organisms, one of our main mechanisms is a reex. This is an immediate response to a

stimulus. Nearly all systems in our bodies have sensors receptors that detect both external

and internal conditions....