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  • Humans are Bipedal

    • Walk solely on two limbs

  • Use of opposable thumbs

    • Allows fine motor control, use of small tools, etc.

  • Language and Society

    • Communicating, abstract ideas, cooperation

  • Large cerebrum

    • allows for complex though, imagination, higher order thinking

  • Requirements for life

    • Boundaries

    • Movement

    • Responsiveness

    • Digestion

    • Metabolism

    • Excretion

    • Reproduction

    • Growth

    • Raw materials

  • Anatomy

    • Structure of body parts

    • relationship between body parts

    • Size, Shape, Location, Connections

    • Molecules, cells, tissues involved

      • Example, The arrangement of the 3 muscle layers in the wall of the stomach

  • Physiology

    • Functions of body parts

    • Movement, response, biochemical reactions

    • Absorption secretion, regulation, coordination

    • How things are built determines how they work

      • Example, How the stomach squeezes and churns ingested food to break it down and cover it with digestive chemicals

  • Structure allows Function, Principal of complementarity of structure and function

    • Lungs consist of elastic tissue because they expand and contract with each breath

    • Skin Grows in many layers of cells so that it protects us against minor abrasions and bacterial entry

  • Atoms combine to form molecules

    • Macromolecules make up living things

    • Macromolecules combine to form organelles

    • Organelles are the functional units of cells

    • Cells are the smallest unit of life

  • Cells working together form tissue

    • Tissues can be epithelium connective, nervous, muscle

    • Organs Carry out one or more specific functions

      • Made up of multiple tissue types

      • Organs do complex functions