Ch 43 Animal Body & Regulation
Objectives
Understand how vertebrate cells are organized into tissues, organs, and organ systems and give examples of each.
Describe the general characteristics and functions of epithelial tissue.
Indicate the two classes and three subdivisions into which epithelial tissue is divided and give examples of each.
Differentiate between exocrine and endocrine glands.
Understand the composition and function of loose versus dense connective tissue.
Describe the specialized connective tissues.
Explain how cartilage and bone are related and the structural advantages of each.
Understand the basic structure of bone tissue and how it is formed.
Describe and characterize the cellular and non-cellular components of blood.
List 2 similarities of all connective tissue types.
Differentiate among smooth, striated, and cardiac muscle in terms of derivation, location, and initiation of contraction.
Understand the functional specialization of nervous tissue and how it relates to the anatomy of an individual neuron.
Characterize the three different kinds of animal skeletons.
Identify the primary components of the axial and appendicular skeletons.
Know the three types of joints and give an example of each.
Differentiate between synergistic and antagonistic sets of muscles.
Understand the microscopic anatomy of skeletal muscle and how it results in movement in the vertebrates.
Explain the molecular aspects of muscle contraction as it relates to myofilaments, actin, and myosin.
Understand the effects of calcium on muscle contraction.
Understand how the nervous and muscular systems interact to produce movement.
Understand how twitch, summation, and tetanus affect forceful muscle contractions.
Compare slow-twitch and fast-twitch muscle fibers.
Differentiate among skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle tissue with respect to form and function.
Compare locomotion of animals through water, over land, and in the air.