About Anatomy and Physiology Preparatory Textbook The goal of this preparatory textbook is to give students a chance to become familiar with some terms and some basic concepts they will find later on in the Anatomy and Physiology course, especially during the first few weeks of the course. Organization and functioning of the human organism are generally presented starting from the simplest building blocks, and then moving into levels of increasing complexity. This textbook follows the same presentation. It begins introducing the concept of homeostasis, then covers the chemical level, and later on a basic introduction to cellular level, organ level, and organ system level. This second edition incorporates a module on protein synthesis, and a complementary base pairing learning objective as requested by many students. This edition incorporates links to audios for all learning objectives, and many learning objectives have online videos associated to them. Icons for audio by Kieselli and for video by Satheesh Sankaran from, both from Pixabay. The illustration on the cover is by Elisa Riva retrieved from Pixabay. The textbook is organized in five UNITS, divided into sixteen MODULES covering a total of fifty-three Learning Objectives. Each learning objective has a short self-assessment at the end. Learning Objectives Content 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
The list of Learning Objectives (LO) is a derivative work of the Learning Outcomes Guidelines by The Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS). Important terms associated with each LO are shown in Arial Bold. Etymology of some new terms is shown between brackets next to the term. The sources are The Free Dictionary by Farlex, and The Online Etymology Dictionary. Illustrations are under Creative Commons licenses, or in the Public Domain. Their sources are cited next to them. Tables compare terms, facts or concepts easier to visualize in a table format. There are links to simulations, interactive activities and videos added to many learning objectives for this second edition. They serve to summarize, and also to show some descriptions from the text in a different way.
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Review Questions address terms, concepts and facts discussed within each learning objective. Most questions are knowledge questions (Bloom’s taxonomy first level). Tests are written in the format that students usually find in college exams (mostly multiple-choice questions, with some true/false, and some fill in the blank). Test questions are a mix of knowledge, comprehension and application questions (Bloom’s taxonomy first three levels).
Acknowledgments Dr. Maureen Gannon contributed with the editing of the first edition and with the development of the question bank. First online version the Preparatory Course was possible thanks to Bronx Community College Library Open Education Resources Project. Recommended Citation Liachovitzky, Carlos, "Human Anatomy and Physiology Preparatory Course Textbook" (2021). CUNY Academic Works. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/bx_oers/1 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License.
Anatomy and Physiology Preparatory Course Textbook 2nd Ed. | Carlos Liachovitzky | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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