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DST 121 Human Biology II

ND1 levelMedical & Health Sciences13 topics

DST 121 covers 13 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Nervous tissue
  2. Brain and cranial nerves
  3. Spinal cord and reflexes
  4. Sensory, motor and integrative systems
  5. Autonomic nervous system
  6. Special senses
  7. Endocrine glands
  8. Hormones and mechanisms of action
  9. Control of hormonal secretion
  10. Normal physiological processes
  11. Physiological variations and adaptations
  12. Causes of deviation from normal
  13. Application to patient management

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Nervous tissue

Nervous tissue is the specialised tissue for receiving stimuli, processing information and transmitting impulses through the body. For exams, you must master the structure of neurons and neuroglia, the organisation of grey and white matter, and how these microscopic features relate to function in the central and peripheral nervous systems.

What you get for DST 121