Suggested Tasks for Conceptual Integration - Module 15

Learning Goals

Watch for and recall examples that integrate the macromolecular, cellular, tissue, and physiological levels of human biology.

Be comfortable with the mixture of physics and physiology in the use of terminology from electrostatics in the context of neuron membrane potential.

Maintain fluent connection between the physical science of sensory input transduction pathways in the interactions of visible light and pigments in the retina of the eye and standing waves in the perilymph of the inner ear.

Integrating solution chemistry, membrane transport mechanisms, and the endocrine chemistry to bear in mind which hormones cross the membrane of target cells and which rely on second messenger systems.

Be able to relate the phosphoryl transfer potential of creatine phosphate in muscle tissue to the phosphoryl transfer potential of ATP bearing in mind the transcendence of phosphoryl transfer in providing the thermodynamic potential for life processes.

Be able to give examples of the fundamental principles of fluid mechanics at play in the cardiovascular system, i.e. continuity of volume flux, Bernoulli's principle, Poiseuille's Law, and Reynolds number.

Be able to give examples of the fundamental principles of the laws of gases and solution chemistry at play in the respiratory system, i.e. Dalton's Law of Partial Pressure and Henry's Law.

Understand the central importance of osmotic pressure and counter-current flow to the formation of urine.

Proficiency 
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