Endocrine System

Learning Objectives:

11.1.1 Define hormone

11.2.4 Explain how the nervous and endocrine systems are alike and how they are different11.2.5 Describe the source of specificity of the endocrine system

11.2.6 Name some functions of hormones

11.4.8 Discuss how negative feedback mechanisms regulate hormonal secretions

11.5.10 Name and describe the locations of the major endocrine glands, and list the hormones they secrete

11.5.11 Describe the functions of the hormones that endocrine glands secrete

11.5.12 Explain how the secretion of each hormone is regulated

Lab: What are the results of perturbing a negative and positive feedback loop? (simulation)