Anatomy & Physiology Workbook For Dummies (For Dummies (Math & Science))

313 Pages·2007·10.58 MB·English

A n a t o m y &
P h y s i o l o g y
Wo r k b o o k
FOR
DUMmIES‰
by Janet Rae-Dupree
and Pat DuPree
A n a t o m y &
P h y s i o l o g y
Wo r k b o o k
FOR
DUMmIES‰
by Janet Rae-Dupree
and Pat DuPree
Anatomy & Physiology Workbook For Dummies®
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About the Authors
Janet Rae-Dupreehas been covering science and technology in Silicon Valley since 1993 for
a number of publications, including U.S. News & World Report,BusinessWeek,the San Jose
Mercury News,and the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.She was a frequent guest
on cable channel Tech TV’s “Silicon Spin” technology talk show, and she was part of the
Pulitzer Prize-winning team at the Los Angeles Times covering the city’s riots in 1992. During
the 2005–2006 academic year, Janet was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford
University, where she studied human biology and researched innovation and market transfer.
She freelances for various publications, working from her home in Half Moon Bay, California,
where she lives with husband, Dave Dupree, and their 9-year-old son, Matthew (although a
19-year-old calico cat named Trillian actually rules the roost).
Pat DuPreetaught anatomy/physiology, biology, medical terminology, and environmental
science for 24 years at several colleges and universities in Los Angeles County. She holds two
undergraduate life science degrees and a master’s degree from Auburn University and con-
ducted cancer research at Southern Research Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, before join-
ing the Muscogee Health Department in Columbus, Georgia. In 1970, she moved to Redondo
Beach, California, where she was a university instructor and raised her two sons, Dave
Dupree and Mark DuPree. Now Pat is retired and lives on lovely Pine Lake in rural Georgia
with her husband, Dr. James E. DuPree.
Dedication
To our loving family — Dave Dupree, Matthew Dupree, and Jim DuPree — for their patience
and understanding as we pulled this book together and put so many other aspects of our
lives on hold. To Dave, for being Mr. Fix-It on balky hard drives, recalcitrant computers, and
fussy printers; for distracting an antsy 8-year-old with baseball, movies, and games; and for
concocting terrific — and healthy! — home-cooked meals. To Matthew, for understanding
why Mommy couldn’t drive for every school field trip, attend every Cub Scout den meeting,
or set up play dates every single day of the week.
And especially from Pat to Jim for his love, enthusiastic support, assistance, and encourage-
ment without which she could not have finished this workbook.
Authors’ Acknowledgments
We owe gratitude to so many people, but this project has been first and foremost a DuPree
family affair. We will never be able to thank our spouses enough for their patience and under-
standing from beginning to end. Dr. James E. DuPree was a constant helpmate to Pat on the
East coast, providing research, editing, computer assistance, and graphics support as well as
priceless cheerleading and enthusiasm. Their son David E. Dupree filled the cheerleader role
on the West coast, keeping the computers and home network up and running, Janet focused
and on track, and the gaping child-rearing gaps filled while she pushed to get the book done
in what surely must be record time. And we can’t forget to thank son/grandson Matthew J.
Dupree for his stalwart patience while Mom and Grandmom focused their attentions on the
book instead of him.
We would also like to thank our agent, Matt Wagner, for his tireless efforts, as well as the
many devoted people at Wiley Publishing, particularly Stacy Kennedy, Chrissy Guthrie (who
welcomed Sophia Rose Guthrie into the world days after receiving the final manuscript!),
Stephen Clark, and Elizabeth Rea.
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Contents at a Glance
Introduction.................................................................................1
Part I: Building Blocks of the Body ...............................................5
Chapter 1: The Chemistry of Life...............................................................................................................7
Chapter 2: The Cell: Life’s Basic Building Block.....................................................................................23
Chapter 3: Divide and Conquer: Cellular Mitosis...................................................................................37
Chapter 4: The Study of Tissues: Histology............................................................................................47
Part II: Weaving It Together: Bones, Muscles, and Skin.................59
Chapter 5: A Scaffold to Build On: The Skeleton....................................................................................61
Chapter 6: Getting in Gear: The Muscles.................................................................................................93
Chapter 7: It’s Skin Deep: The Integumentary System.........................................................................113
Part III: Feed and Fuel: Supply and Transport ............................127
Chapter 8: Oxygenating the Machine: The Respiratory System........................................................129
Chapter 9: Fueling the Functions: The Digestive System....................................................................143
Chapter 10: Spreading the Love: The Circulatory System..................................................................163
Chapter 11: Keeping Up Your Defenses: The Lymphatic System.......................................................181
Chapter 12: Filtering Out the Junk: The Urinary System.....................................................................195
Part IV: Survival of the Species.................................................205
Chapter 13: Why Ask Y?: The Male Reproductive System..................................................................207
Chapter 14: Carrying Life Forward: The Female Reproductive System............................................219
Part V: Mission Control: All Systems Go.....................................235
Chapter 15: Feeling Jumpy: The Nervous System................................................................................237
Chapter 16: Raging Hormones: The Endocrine System.......................................................................265
Part VI: The Part of Tens...........................................................281
Chapter 17: Ten Study Tips.....................................................................................................................283
Chapter 18: Ten (Plus One) Terrific Online Resources........................................................................287
Index.......................................................................................291

Table of Contents
Introduction .................................................................................1
About This Book.........................................................................................................................1
Conventions Used in This Book...............................................................................................1
Foolish Assumptions.................................................................................................................2
How This Book Is Organized.....................................................................................................2
Part I: Building Blocks of the Body................................................................................2
Part II: Weaving It Together: Bones, Muscles, and Skin...............................................2
Part III: Feed and Fuel: Supply and Transport..............................................................3
Part IV: Survival of the Species.......................................................................................3
Part V: Mission Control: All Systems Go........................................................................3
Part VI: The Part of Tens.................................................................................................3
Icons Used in This Book............................................................................................................3
Where to Go from Here..............................................................................................................4
Part I: Building Blocks of the Body................................................5
Chapter 1: The Chemistry of Life..........................................................................................7
Building from Scratch: Atoms and Elements..........................................................................7
Compounding Chemical Reactions........................................................................................10
Cycling through Life: Metabolism..........................................................................................15
Answers to Questions on Life’s Chemistry...........................................................................21
Chapter 2: The Cell: Life’s Basic Building Block............................................................23
Gaining Admission: The Cell Membrane...............................................................................23
Aiming for the Nucleus............................................................................................................26
Looking Inside: Organelles and Their Functions..................................................................27
Putting Together New Proteins..............................................................................................31
Cycling Along: Grow, Rest, Divide, Die..................................................................................33
Answers to Questions on the Cell..........................................................................................35
Chapter 3: Divide and Conquer: Cellular Mitosis...........................................................37
The Mitotic Process.................................................................................................................37
Waiting for action: Interphase......................................................................................38
Sorting out the parts: Prophase...................................................................................38
Dividing at the equator: Metaphase.............................................................................38
Packing up to move out: Anaphase..............................................................................38
Pinching off: Telophase.................................................................................................39
Splitting up: Cytokinesis................................................................................................39
What Can Go Wrong.................................................................................................................42
Answers to Questions on Mitosis..........................................................................................44
Chapter 4: The Study of Tissues: Histology......................................................................47
Getting Under Your Skin..........................................................................................................47
Making a Connection: Connective Tissue.............................................................................50
Flexing It: Muscle Tissue.........................................................................................................53
Getting the Signal Across: Nerve Tissue...............................................................................54
Answers to Questions on Histology......................................................................................56
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Part II: Weaving It Together: Bones, Muscles, and Skin .................59
Chapter 5: A Scaffold to Build On: The Skeleton............................................................61
Understanding Dem Bones.....................................................................................................61
Boning Up on Classifications, Structures, and Ossification...............................................63
Axial Skeleton: Keeping It All in Line.....................................................................................69
Making a hard head harder...........................................................................................69
Putting your backbones into it.....................................................................................70
Appendicular Skeleton: Reaching Beyond Our Girdles.......................................................79
Arthrology: Articulating the Joints........................................................................................82
Answers to Questions on the Skeleton.................................................................................87
Chapter 6: Getting in Gear: The Muscles.........................................................................93
Flexing Your Muscle Knowledge............................................................................................93
Classifications: Smooth, Cardiac, and Skeletal.....................................................................95
Contracting for a Contraction................................................................................................97
Pulling Together: Muscles as Organs.....................................................................................99
Assuming the Right Tone......................................................................................................100
Leveraging Muscular Power.................................................................................................101
What’s In a Name? Identifying Muscles...............................................................................104
Answers to Questions on Muscles.......................................................................................109
Chapter 7: It’s Skin Deep: The Integumentary System.................................................113
Dermatology Down Deep......................................................................................................113
Epidermis: Don’t judge this book by its cover.........................................................114
Dermis: It’s more than skin deep................................................................................115
Touching a Nerve in the Integumentary System................................................................119
Accessorizing with Hair, Nails, and Glands........................................................................120
Wigging out about hair................................................................................................120
Nailing the fingers and toes........................................................................................121
Sweating the details.....................................................................................................121
Getting an earful...........................................................................................................122
Answers to Questions on the Skin.......................................................................................125
Part III: Feed and Fuel: Supply and Transport.............................127
Chapter 8: Oxygenating the Machine: The Respiratory System................................129
Breathing In Oxygen, Breathing Out CO ............................................................................129
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Inhaling the Basics about the Respiratory Tract...............................................................132
Knowing about the nose (and sinuses).....................................................................132
Dealing with throaty matters......................................................................................134
Going deep inside the lungs........................................................................................137
Damaging Air..........................................................................................................................139
Answers to Questions on the Respiratory System............................................................141
Chapter 9: Fueling the Functions: The Digestive System............................................143
Digesting the Basics: It’s Alimentary!..................................................................................143
Nothing to Spit At: Into the Mouth and Past the Teeth.....................................................145
Entering the vestibule..................................................................................................146
Moving along the oral cavity......................................................................................147
The tongue...........................................................................................................147
The salivary glands............................................................................................148
Stomaching the Body’s Fuel..................................................................................................151
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Breaking Down the Work of Digestive Enzymes.................................................................154
Small intestine..............................................................................................................154
Liver...............................................................................................................................155
Pancreas........................................................................................................................156
Large intestine..............................................................................................................157
Answers to Questions on the Digestive Tract....................................................................159
Chapter 10: Spreading the Love: The Circulatory System...........................................163
Moving to the Beat of a Pump..............................................................................................163
Finding the Key to the Heart’s Chambers...........................................................................166
The atria........................................................................................................................166
The ventricles...............................................................................................................167
Conducting the Heart’s Music..............................................................................................170
Riding the Network of Blood Vessels...................................................................................172
Beating from the Start: Fetal Circulation.............................................................................174
Answers to Questions on the Circulatory System.............................................................178
Chapter 11: Keeping Up Your Defenses: The Lymphatic System...............................181
Duct, Duct, Lymph.................................................................................................................181
Poking at the Nodes...............................................................................................................184
Having a Spleen-ded Time with the Lymphatic Organs....................................................187
The spleen.....................................................................................................................188
T cell central: The thymus gland................................................................................188
Opening wide and moving along: The tonsils and Peyer’s patches.......................189
Answers to Questions on the Lymphatic System..............................................................192
Chapter 12: Filtering Out the Junk: The Urinary System..............................................195
Examining the Kidneys, the Body’s Filters.........................................................................195
Going molecular...........................................................................................................196
Focusing on filtering....................................................................................................196
Getting Rid of the Waste........................................................................................................199
Surfing the ureters........................................................................................................199
Ballooning the bladder................................................................................................199
The male and female urethras....................................................................................199
Spelling Relief: Urination.......................................................................................................201
Answers to Questions on the Urinary System...................................................................203
Part IV: Survival of the Species..................................................205
Chapter 13: Why Ask Y?: The Male Reproductive System..........................................207
Identifying the Parts of the Male Reproductive System....................................................207
Packaging the Chromosomes for Delivery..........................................................................211
Answers to Questions on the Male Reproductive System................................................217
Chapter 14: Carrying Life Forward: The Female Reproductive System....................219
Identifying the Female Reproductive Parts and Their Functions....................................219
Making Eggs: A Mite More Meiosis......................................................................................224
Making Babies: An Introduction to Embryology................................................................226
Growing from Fetus to Baby.................................................................................................227
Growing, Changing, and Aging..............................................................................................229
Answers to Questions on the Female Reproductive System............................................231