Spring Semester 2015
This course is
Biology 212
Anatomy & Physiology II
with
Dr. Thompson, Dr. Larson, and Dr. Heisermann
If you are here for a different course,
one of us is in the wrong place!
Format of the course:
Lecture: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays
10:00 to 10:50 am
Lab: Section 19: Thursdays 2:00-3:50 pm
Section 20: Wednesdays 4:00-5:50 pm
Section 21: Mondays 4:00-5:50 pm
Course Materials:
Textbook: Saladin, “Anatomy and Physiology
The Unity of Form and Function”
(other books may be acceptable)
Lab Exercises: Posted online through the course webpage
Bring your textbook to lab each time
Glove Voucher: Purchase at WSU Bookstore $7.00
Medical Dictionary highly recommended. Find one you like.
Webpage: http://course1.winona.edu/ethompson/212.htm
Course syllabus, reviews, PowerPoints, &
other information.
Attendance and Classroom Etiquette
Attendance required at every lecture and every lab.
May be checked with quizzes & sign-ins.
Computers, cell phones, tablets, etc. must be turned off
during lectures and exams. Laptops or tablets may be used
in lab with the instructor’s permission
No i-Pods or similar devices, please.
Simple test: If it is electronic and not essential for your
survival (such as a pacemaker or insulin
pump) turn it off and put it away.
One exception: You may use an electronic voice recorder
Exams
4 Lecture Exams: 50 questions each
Covers: lecture information since previous exam
Final Exam: 100 questions
Cumulative – covers entire course
3 Lab Exams: 25 questions each worth 2 points
Covers: Labs since previous lab exam
Grading
Total of 450 points: 200 from weekly lecture exams
150 from lab exams
100 from cumulative final exam
Curve: Points added at end of course
(explained in syllabus)
Depends on attendance and preparation
A = >91%
B = >81%
C = >71%
D = >61%
F = <61%
We want to help you succeed in this class, and
have posted a number of things online for you
to use. You will need to access these.
They are all linked through the course home-page
http://course1.winona.edu/ethompson/212.htm
Specifically note from syllabus:
A. Reading assignments. Must be completed
BEFORE the Monday lecture each week
B. Dates of exams.
C. How grades will be calculated and curved.
The course homepage provides links to
Modified copies of Powerpoints used in class.
For example:
If I projected this slide:
The one through the webpage
would look like this:
You should print these out and bring them to class to
take notes. No, you can not download them and bring
your computer to lecture to take those notes.
Be Careful!
Do NOT assume that just filling in the additional material
from the slides which are projected is the same as
“taking notes”. Since most of the test questions for this
course will be taken from what I say, not what I project
on the screen, you will also need to be sure to take good
notes of that information as well.
The course homepage provides links to
Chapter Reviews
These should be used only after you think you
have mastered the material. They are designed to
help you identify areas in which you are still weak.
The course homepage provides a link to a
discussion of How to Study Most Effectively for
this course.
The course homepage provides a link to a
discussion of How I Write Exams.
Use this to help you prepare for exams.
The course homepage provides links to
Other Anatomy and Physiology Websites
which may be of interest.
Anatomy and Physiology I – Biology 211 or its equivalent is a prerequisite for this course.
Since some of you may have just completed that course
while others did so a year or more ago, I want to be sure
that the transition from that course to this one goes as
smoothly as possible.
You should be particularly familiar/comfortable with a
number of concepts from A&P I which will be incorporated
into A&P II as well, and you should go back and review
these tonight if necessary.
These terms and concepts will be used in lectures and
labs, and I will assume you know them on exams…
You should be particularly familiar/comfortable with the
following concepts from A&P I:
1) Structural Hierarchy
You should be particularly familiar/comfortable with the
following concepts from A&P I:
2) Cellular structure –
Particularly the plasma membrane, channels, and how
things get across it into and out of the cell.
You should be particularly familiar/comfortable with the
following concepts from A&P I:
3) Macromolecules:
How amino acids form proteins
How monosaccharides form carbohydrates
How fatty acids & glycerol form lipids
How nucleotides form nucleic acids
You should be particularly familiar/comfortable with the
following concepts from A&P I:
4) Basic Histology
Cells, fibers, ground substance
Types and classification of epithalia, connective tissues,
muscle tissues, and nervous tissues
You should be particularly familiar/comfortable with the
following concepts from A&P I:
5) Terms of relative position:
Anterior
Posterior
Ventral
Dorsal
Superior
Inferior
Lateral
Medial
Superficial
Deep
Proximal
Distal
In addition to those five broad concepts of structural
hierarchy, cellular structure, macromolecules, tissues,
and terms of relative position; you will need to know
some additional specific information you learned in the
first Anatomy and Physiology course:
1. How to properly use a microsope.
2. The mechanism of contraction in skeletal muscle
(you will need to know this for cardiac muscle)
3. How an action potential is generated and propagated
and what occurs at a chemical synapse
(you will need to know this as we discuss neural control
of different systems)
This does not mean that the other topics of the earlier
prerequisite course are not important. You should review
them all within the next few days if it has been a while
since you took A&P I.
However, you will have particular problems in A&P II
if you do not have a good grasp of these topics.
I will assume you do, and this information will show up in
exam questions.
We want you to succeed in this course, so please:
1. Attend all lectures and labs, and use open lab times.
2. Come to lectures and labs prepared
a) Complete reading assignments before lectures.
b) Read and understand labs before lab periods.
3. Pay attention and take good notes in lectures & labs What we say as well as what is projected on the board
4. Plan to spend at least 2 or 3 hours per day studying for this
class a) Reviewing notes and textbook
b) Correlating lecture, lab, & textbook information
5. If you don’t understand something, ask.
6. Study each subject until you thoroughly understand it,
not just until you have memorized it.
Keys to succeeding in A&P
1. Study in relatively short blocks, 30 - 40 min, with breaks between
2. Use different methods of study: reading, writing, discussing, etc.
3. Be sure you understand concepts - don’t just memorize
4. Constantly ask yourself “how does structure relate to function?
5. Go back-and-forth between notes and the textbook
6. You can’t fall behind - even for a day
7. Repetition, repetition, repetition!
8. You have studied a subject enough when you can explain it to
someone else without using notes.
If you can’t do this, you haven’t studied enough.
Any questions, or anything else we need to
clear up, before we start talking about the
endocrine system?