Why does your heart beat harder when your scared?
Educational Goals:
- Appreciate how pathways may be used for multiple purposes.
- Recognize that critical events require multiple, redundant signals.
- Understand the significance of the second law of thermodynamics.
- Learn how muscles contract.
Learning Outcomes - Students will:
- compare and contrast the two startle responses
- explain how myosin is able to produce more force per contraction
- predict the movement of ions with channels and pumps
- describe the steps required for muscle contraction and relaxation
- distinguish mechanisms responsible for pulse rate vs. blood pressure
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