One Body by XVIVO (2m 14s):
Get Body Smart: superb interactive, illustrated tutorials and quizzes on human anatomy and physiology.
How much of your body is your own? – a great little quiz from the BBC
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Option D Human Physiology
Get Body Smart: superb interactive, illustrated tutorials and quizzes on human anatomy and physiology.
11.2 Movement
11.2 Movement from Bob Smullen
Here is another presentation, taking you through muscle contraction step by step:
Fantastic animated tutorials from McGraw Hill Education – Action Potentials & Muscle Contraction, Myofilament Contraction, sarcomere contraction & breakdown of ATP & cross-bridge movement.
Two video lessons on 11.2 Movement: a 7m video from Luiz Mello and a 15m video from Briscucation.
A 5m TED-Ed intro to How the Muscular System works and from Crash Course, Muscles, part 1 – Muscle Cells: Crash Course A&P #21 in 10m and Muscles, part 2 – Organismal Level: Crash Course A&P #22 in 10m 40s.
Paul Andersen explains The Muscular System in 5m 59s.
In Crash Course Biology #30 – The Skeletal System: It’s ALIVE!, Hank introduces us to the framework of our bodies, our skeleton and in #31 – Big Guns: The Muscular System, he tells us the story of the complicated chemical dance that allows our skeletal muscles to contract and relax.
This is an amazing gif from tabletop whale – you have to check it out:
11.3 The Kidney & Osmoregulation
11.3 kidney from Bob Smullen
OSMOREGULATION
Mr Paul Andersen (from Bozeman High) describes Osmoregulation (including in fish which you don’t need to know) in a 8m 57s lesson.
Osmoregulator or Osmoconformer? Here are two videos about contractile vacuoles in Paramecium (they are osmoregulators): Paramecium vacuole (1m video) and contractile vacuole (a 27s explanation). If it goes wrong – Paramecium exploding!
THE KIDNEYS
A nice introduction to how the kidneys work (from TED-Ed):
An animated, narrated tutorial on the mammalian kidney which also includes a quiz (from Sinauer Associates).
In Crash Course Biology #29 – The Excretory System: From Your Heart to the Toilet, Hank takes us on the fascinating journey through our excretory system to learn how our kidneys make pee.
11.4 Sexual Reproduction
6.6. & 11.4 Reproduction from Bob Smullen
Paul Andersen describes The Reproductive System in 9m. In Crash Course Biology #34 – The Reproductive System: How Gonads Go, Hank lets us in on the meaning of life, at least from a biological perspective – it’s reproduction.
GAMETOGENESIS
Fantastic animated tutorials from McGraw Hill Education – spermatogenesis & the maturation of the oocyte & follicle.
FERTILISATION
Impressive Journey of Sperm – a 6m video on fertilisation.
IMPLANTATION & EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT
Day 0 to 7 Fertilization, Zygote, Blastocyst 4m video from Armando Hasudungan. Implantation – a 2m 53s animation.
A Biologist’s Mother’s Day Song (3m 50s):
Amazing – Child is born still inside Amniotic Sac – happens to just one in every 80,000 babies
D1 Human Nutrition (SL & HL)
Components of the Human Diet from Stephen Taylor with thanks.
D2 Digestion (SL & HL)
Fantastic animated tutorials from McGraw Hill Education on hormones & gastric secretion & the 3 phases of gastric secretion.
D3 Functions of the Liver (SL & HL)
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:
D5 Hormones & Metabolism (HL only)
Topic 6 Human Physiology
One Body by XVIVO (2m 14s):
Get Body Smart: superb interactive, illustrated tutorials and quizzes on human anatomy and physiology.