3.00 Credits
Required for students pursuing a Biology Secondary Education degree, as well as many pre-allied health, pre-nursing, pre-dental, pre-medical, and other pre-professional programs. Examines how the body's functions are carried out utilizing a systems approach, including blood chemistry, nerve impulse transmission, kidney function, muscle contraction, and heart function. Successful completers of this intensive course will have sufficient familiarity with the details of biological functions to enable them to understand disease processes, treatment procedures, research pursuits, and evolutionary consequences of various aspects of physiology. Successful completion of BIOL 1010, BIOL 1200, BIOL 1610, or equivalent recommended prior to enrolling. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Explain biological and medical vocabulary and the importance of its use in science. 2. Describe the overall processes of the major body systems: integument, skeletal, muscular, nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, lymphatic, respiratory, digestive, reproductive and urinary. 3. Describe cell transport systems, communication, function and how the body systems interact to achieve homeostasis. 4. Apply knowledge gained in the course to clinical cases. Corequisites: BIOL 2425. FA, SP, SU