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Category Archives: Option D Human Physiology
D1 Human Nutrition (SL & HL)
D2 Digestion (SL & HL)
Fantastic animated tutorials from McGraw Hill Education on hormones & gastric secretion & the 3 phases of gastric secretion.
Click on ‘Fatty Acid Metabolism’ to see an Interactive Animation from Wiley on Lipid Digestion & Absorption (& metabolism which we don’t need).
Click on ‘Fatty Acid Metabolism’ to see an Interactive Animation from Wiley on Lipid Digestion & Absorption (& metabolism which we don’t need).
D3 Functions of the Liver (SL & HL)
Functions Of The Liver from Stephen Taylor – thank you Mr Taylor (of iBiology).
A fantastic animated tutorial from McGraw Hill Education on hemoglobin breakdown.
What does the Liver do? – a three and a half minute lesson from TED-Ed:
D4 The Heart (SL & HL)
Fantastic animated tutorials from McGraw Hill Education – the cardiac cycle, mechanical events of the cardiac cycle (pressure & volume changes etc) & the conducting system of the heart.
An animated, narrated tutorial on measuring blood pressure (from Sinauer Associates).
Click on ‘Cholesterol’ to see an Interactive Animation from Wiley on Cholesterol & Heart Disease and here is an excellent lesson from TED-Ed on on what is fat?
D5 Hormones & Metabolism (HL only)
The fight or flight response as an example of cells signalling other cells (4m 34) – you don’t need to know this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6uHotlXvPo&feature=share&list=PLRjS0i4ZIK37I8XE_QowMkhuWAhoukz_F&index=1
D6 Transport of Respiratory Gases (HL only)
H6 Gas Exchange notes – taken from Click4biology with thanks.
GetBodySmart has animated tutorials on gas exchange molecules. And here are more animated tutorials from McGraw Hill Education – alveolar pressure changes during breathing, gas exchange during respiration (breathing) & movement of oxygen & carbon dioxide.
Click on ‘Myoglobin & Hemoglobin’ to work through an Interactive Tutorial from Wiley.
Infographic from Compound Interest: