1. Notes Module #1 pages 1-5
What is amazing about the human
body:
It is God’s ultimate design
It is a fascinating organic
machine
It is a chemical manufacturing
plant unlike any other!!!

2. Your body makes a wider
variety of chemicals than the
sum total of all chemist in the
world and more efficiently than
science can!!!!

3. What three things can the body
do more efficiently and
faster than science can ever
hope for?
Make chemicals
Convert fuel to energy
Process information

4. What is anatomy?
The study of the body’s
structural framework. (what’s
there)
What is physiology?
•The study of how the body
works.

5. How are anatomy and
physiology related?
What a body can do
depends on how the body is
constructed.
The body structure gives a
strong indication as to how the
structure is used.

6. Example: lungs are
constructed with many air sacs
with thin walls (anatomy), this
construction permits the lungs
to function as a site for oxygen
and carbon dioxide exchange
(physiology).

7. Terminology: Different types of
anatomy
Gross anatomy – study of the
body structures seen without the
use of a microscope (structures
you can

8. Microscopic anatomy or Histologic
anatomy (histology)
The study of the parts of the body
that you can not see with the
unaided eye (you need a
microscope).
Includes – the study of cells,
tissues, and organs as observed
with a microscope.

9. Human anatomy – the study of
both the gross and microscopic
anatomy of humans.

10. Comparative anatomy – comparing
the anatomy of God’s other
creatures with that of humans.
ex. Bird’s wings compared to a
human’s arm

11. Surface anatomy – anatomy
of the skin and surface of
the body.

12. Regional anatomy – the study
of the parts of the body
located in a certain region.
ex. anatomy of the foot (look at
bones, tendons, tissue, blood
vessels, nerves all
located in the foot).

13. Systemic anatomy – the study
of the organ systems body.
What we do in this class.

14. There are 11 organ systems with
organs that work together to make
up our bodies: (fig. 1.1 in text)
Integumentary (skin) – covers and
protects body
Skeletal – protects and gives
support
Muscular – permits movement

15. Nervous – receives stimuli and
processes/coordinates
Endocrine- chemically
coordinates/integrates activities
Circulatory – transports
Lymphatic – removes foreign
chem/organisms from blood

16. Digestive – digest food and
absorbs nutrients
Respiratory – collects O2 and
exchanges it for CO2
Urinary – removes metabolic
waste from blood
Reproductive – produces sex cells
for next generation

17. Levels of organization:
1. Organism – the whole
body
2. Organ system – a group of
organs that work together to
perform a function in the body.

18. Levels of organization:
3. Organ – a group of
different tissues specialized
for a particular function in the
body.
4. Tissue – a group of
similar cells specialized
to perform a specific body
function.

19. Levels of organization:
5. Cell – the basic structural
unit of an organism, the smallest
unit of life.
6. Organelle – a formed body
in the cytoplasm of the cell,
each have a function, compose
the cell.

20. Levels of organization:
7. Molecules – proteins, fats,
lipids, that make up the
organelles.
8. Atoms – smallest
component of an element

22. Four types of tissues:
1. Nervous tissue – makes up
brain, spinal cord, and nerves.
2. Connective tissue – makes
up bones, cartilage, etc.

23. Four types of tissues:
3. Epithelial tissue – skin
4. Muscular tissue – muscles
and the heart

24. Four types of tissues:
These four types of tissues
make up all the many organs
of the body.

25. Types of cells:
1. Prokaryotic – have no
membrane bound organelles
or true nucleus, the DNA
floats in the cytoplasm
 Includes bacteria

26. Types of cells:
2. Eukaryotic - have
membrane bound organelles
and a true nucleus where most
DNA is found.
Includes most organisms
besides bacteria