Week 13     

Nervous System:  Brain and Drugs

q  Complete the  "Your Brain on Drugs Webquest" found under Course Documents on LearningPoint.  Answer all the questions in your own words.  Print out your completed Brain Webquest Questions. Due 5-7-08

q  We will be doing the Drug Detectives lab.  See the lab instructions  this week.  Print this information out, and bring to class on Wed. 5-7-08.   NOTE:  we may not have time for this.  We will first finish the Sensory Lab (5 stations we started last week), followed by the Nervous System Poster Started 2 weeks ago).  If we do not have time for the Drug lab, we will do it next week.

q  Do LB p. 78-79.  LB P. 80 .  Due 5-7-08

q  Do LB pg 84 back.  Here is a word bank: receptors; somatosensory cortex; head; thermoreceptors; nerve pathways; brain regions;  ear; cerebral hemisphere; mouth; hand; sensation; perception; action potentials; brain; stimulus intensity; frequency; number; amplitude; stimulus; chemoreceptors; mechanoreceptors; photoreceptors; encapsulated.  Due 5-7-08

For Students taking the Challenge Exam I have some more questions that need to be added to you Study Guide (see below).  For students not taking the Exam, you may do this study guide and receive points.  This will be due Week 15- May 21.

1. What are the most abundant atoms of living things?
2. Draw a Carbon atom.  Label the nucleus, protons, neutrons, electrons.
3. Define the following terms:

Homeostasis
4. Describe homeostasis using temperature as an example, and insulin and glucagons as an example.

Blood  
5. What is the basic composition of blood?  What does each component do?

Immunology:
6. What is a antigen?
7. Describe the non-specific immune system
8. Describe the specific immune system (cell mediated response, antibody mediated response)
9. What are allergies?  How is inflammation involved?
10. What are autoimmune disorders?
11. How are allergies, inflammation and autoimmune disorders related?
12. How do vaccinations work?  Why do you need booster shots?

  Viruses
13. Describe a typical virus.
14. Why is it debatable whether a virus is "living" or "nonliving"?