Unit 7

Endocrine and Immune Systems Final Exam

Unit Outcomes
Things To Do For This Unit
Chapter Notes & Textbook Assignments
Online Activities

Unit Outcomes

After reading these chapters, students should be able to:

Describe and discuss the methods to achieve and maintain homeostasis within the endocrine and immune systems.
Explain the structure and function of the organs/hormones within these systems.
Identify and describe the normal age related changes that effect these systems and determine how to differentiate these changes from abnormal or disease state.
Describe the features of a primary and a secondary immune response and the importance of positive feedback in an immune response.
Determine the risks to benefits ratio of hormone replacement therapy.
Discuss the causes, risks, signs/symptoms, management and prevention of the conditions which can effect these systems.

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Things To Do For This Unit

Take the Final Examination
Do your seventh webboard assignment

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Chapter Notes & Textbook Assignments

The Chapter Notes constitute a brief outline of the concepts and vocabulary that you should concentrate on in your readings. The notes also contain supplementary information which will help you to meet your learning objectives for the chapter.

The notes are available to download and print.

Chapter 14 Notes
Chapter 15 Notes
Read Chapter 14
Read Chapter 15

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Online Activities

Final Exam

Complete the Proctored Final Examination. The first 30 questions will be specific to chapters 14-15. The final 60 questions will cover material from chapters 1-13.

Seventh WebBoard Assgnment

Choose a topic from chapters 14-15 that you found either interesting or confusing and write a paragraph about that topic (what you found interesting, new, or what was confusing about it) under web board assignment #7. Please place the subject or title in the topic space so other students know what the posting is going to be about. If the topic that you wish to post on is already being discussed add your ideas to the existing thread and write about another topic as your main posting.

In addition to your own initial posting on a topic, please read and post your thoughts and ideas to two of your classmates postings. (These secondary postings should be more than “I agree or disagree with your ideas/thoughts”.)

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