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• Cover
• Introduction
• About This Book
• Conventions Used in This Book
• Foolish Assumptions
• Icons Used in This Book
• Where to Go from Here
• Chapter 1: Focusing on the Framework of Anatomy and Physiology
• Looking at the Science of Anatomy and Physiology
• Familiarizing Yourself with Anatomical Jargon
• Arranging Organisms by Levels of Organization
• Metabolism: Keeping Body Processes in Motion
• Balancing Bodily Reactions with Homeostasis
• Chapter 2: Examining Cell Biology Basics
• How Cells Spend Their Time
• Exploring Eukaryotic Cells
• Macromolecules, the Building Blocks of Life
• Discovering How Genetic Material Makes You Who You Are
• Cycling through Life, Cell-Style
• Forming Tissues from Cells
• Chapter 3: Scoping Out the Body’s Structural Layers
• The Skinny on Your Skeleton
• The 411 on the Muscular System
• An Introduction to the Integument
• Chapter 4: Getting to the Heart of the Circulatory System
• Analyzing the Cardiac Anatomy
• Meet Your Blood Vessels
• Discovering What’s in Your Blood
• Focusing on the Physiology of Circulation
• Chapter 5: Taking a Deep Breath with the Respiratory System
• Surveying the Duties of the Respiratory System
• Nosing around Your Respiratory Anatomy
• Discovering the Ins and Outs of Breathing
• Chapter 6: Getting on Track with the Digestive System
• Your Digestive System in a Nutshell
• Moving through the Structures of the Digestive Tract
• Doing the Chemical Breakdown
• Chapter 7: Passing through the Urinary System
• Running Down the Urinary System’s Responsibilities
• Surveying the Structures of the Urinary System
• The Yellow River
• Maintaining Homeostasis
• Chapter 8: Making Babies: The Reproductive System
• Surveying the Functions of the Reproductive System
• Making Gametes
• The Egg-citing Female Reproductive System
• Furthering Fertilization: The Male Reproductive System
• Pausing for Pregnancy
• Chapter 9: Exploring the Nervous, Endocrine, and Immune Systems
• Controlling It All: The Nervous System
• Sending Messages Chemical-Style with the Endocrine System
• Defending Your “Self” with the Immune System
• Chapter 10: Ten Phabulous Physiology Phacts
• Only Humans Have Opposable Thumbs
• Human Milk Is the Best Milk
• You’re (Surprisingly) as Hairy as a Gorilla
• You Can Process Fear and Emotion
• You Smell Like You See
• Your Mouth Is More Efficient Than a Chimp’s
• Millions of Microbes Owe You Their Lives
• Oxygen Can be Dangerous
• You Can Control Your Breathing but Fido Can’t
• Hemoglobin Dominates Your Red Blood Cells
• Index
• About the Authors
• Advertisement Page
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• End User License Agreement