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By the end of this section, you will be able to: <ul> <li>Describe epithelial tissues</li> <li>Discuss the different types of connective tissues in animals</li> <li>Describe three types of muscle tissues</li> <li>Describe nervous tissue</li> </ul>
By the end of this section, you will be able to: <ul> <li>Describe the location and structure of the parathyroid glands</li> <li>Describe the hormonal control of blood calcium levels</li> <li>Discuss the physiological response of parathyroid dysfunction</li> </ul>
By the end of this section, you will be able to: <ul> <li>Explain concentric, isotonic, and eccentric contractions</li> <li>Describe the length-tension relationship</li> <li>Describe the three phases of a muscle twitch</li> <li>Define wave summation, tetanus, and treppe</li> </ul>
<ul> <li>Understand the importance of socialization both for individuals and society</li> <li>Explain the nature versus nurture debate</li> </ul>
<ul> <li>Investigate different types of microscopes.</li> <li>Learn how image is formed in a compound microscope.</li> </ul>
<ul> <li>Explain how an object must be displaced for a force on it to do work.</li> <li>Explain how relative directions of force and displacement determine whether the work done is positive, negative, or zero.</li> </ul>
<ul> <li>Discuss two dimensional collisions as an extension of one dimensional analysis.</li> <li>Define point masses.</li> <li>Derive an expression for conservation of momentum along <foreign>x</foreign>-axis and <foreign>y</foreign>-axis.</li> <li>Describe elastic collisions of two objects with equal mass.</li> <li>Determine the magnitude and direction of the final velocity given initial velocity, and scattering angle.</li> </ul>
<ul> <li>Relate the linear momentum of a photon to its energy or wavelength, and apply linear momentum conservation to simple processes involving the emission, absorption, or reflection of photons.</li> <li>Account qualitatively for the increase of photon wavelength that is observed, and explain the significance of the Compton wavelength.</li> </ul>
<ul> <li>Explain how socialization occurs and recurs throughout life</li> <li>Understand how people are socialized into new roles at age-related transition points</li> <li>Describe when and how resocialization occurs</li> </ul>
<ul> <li>Explain work as a transfer of energy and net work as the work done by the net force.</li> <li>Explain and apply the work-energy theorem.</li> </ul>
By the end of this section, you will be able to: <ul> <li>Describe the features that characterized the earliest animals and when they appeared on earth</li> <li>Explain the significance of the Cambrian period for animal evolution and the changes in animal diversity that took place during that time</li> <li>Describe some of the unresolved questions surrounding the Cambrian explosion</li> <li>Discuss the implications of mass animal extinctions that have occurred in evolutionary history</li> </ul>
<ul> <li>Understand the difference between senior age groups (young-old, middle-old, and old-old)</li> <li>Describe the “graying of the United States” as the population experiences increased life expectancies</li> <li>Examine aging as a global issue</li> </ul>
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