An Ordinary Blog: Unit 1 Reflection

9/8/15

Unit 1 Reflection

This unit was all about the relationship between the anatomy and physiology in the different levels of organization (molecules, cells, tissues, organs). This idea was aided by the information about the various types of macromolecules, their structure, and how their arrangement affects the behavior of the cell and its corresponding tissue. All of this fell under the overarching idea that function is directly related to structure.

In the process to answer all these questions, I learned a plethora of information. Starting from the beginning of the unit, I gained more information about the four different types of macromolecules: lipids, proteins, carbohydrates, and nucleic acids. I also got to learn about how to describe location on the human body such as the knee is proximal to the ankle. Moving into more detail, we went on to learn about the four different types of tissue: nervous, muscle, connective, and epithelial. Although the material was very straightforward, I still struggle with identifying images of cells, as it is hard to see the detail on photocopied images. As we move forward in the year, I hope to improve my test score as well as by ability to identify different tissue.

Everything we learn in school, well not everything, applies to the real world and our other studies. One example of this is the section on macromolecules. While learning about them in Anatomy and Physiology, I was studying them in Biology AP as well. It also gave me a preview into the possibility of what it would look like to major in a life science. Also, the anatomical terms that we learned in the beginning of the unit now make it a lot easier to understand crime shows (don't judge).