Preface
Welcome to the Thompson Rivers University 1592/1593 Anatomy & Physiology open textbook!
This textbook is a project under development by faculty and staff at Thompson Rivers University for use in the BIOL 1592 and 1593 courses. This text is our adaptation of another adaptation, that of the Biology faculty at Douglas College (BC, Canada), of the original OpenStax Anatomy & Physiology open access textbook. Our version reorganizes units, and splits the Nervous System unit into three separate units. Coverage of a number of topics is also expanded, either by importing content from the OpenStax Anatomy & Physiology 2e textbook, or written de novo.
Readers should be aware that the information herein is subject to change at any time as corrections, additions, or other important modifications are made. Current students at Thompson Rivers University should be aware that only the most recent version of this textbook will be considered by their instructors to be complete and correct.
The most recent version of the Douglas College adaptation (second edition), upon which the Thompson Rivers University adaptation is based, will remain accessible online at https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/dcbiol110311092nded/, and the most recent version of the second edition of the companion textbook (developed for Douglas College’s BIOL 1203 and BIOL 1209 courses) will also remain accessible online at https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/dcbiol120312092nded/.
Additional information included in the Thompson Rivers University adaptation was obtained from the OpenStax Anatomy & Physiology textbook (2nd edition), which can be found online at: https://openstax.org/details/books/anatomy-and-physiology-2e.
Both the Douglas College adaptation and the OpenStax Anatomy & Physiology (2nd edition) are based on the original OpenStax Anatomy & Physiology textbook, freely and perpetually available online at http://cnx.org/content/col11496/latest/. The original adaptations of that OpenStax textbook for Douglas College are accessible online at https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/dcbiol11031109/ and https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/dcbiol12031209/.
About this Resource
Customization
The content of this textbook is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY) license, which means that you can distribute, remix, and build upon the content, as long as you provide attribution to its content contributors.
Errata
Since this textbook is primarily web based, updates can be made ‘live’ when deemed pedagogically necessary. If you have a correction to suggest, please submit it by email for review to Dr. David Kabelik, whose current contact information can be obtained from the Biological Sciences faculty page of the Thompson Rivers University website: https://www.tru.ca/science/departments/biology/faculty.html.
About Anatomy and Physiology
Section 1: Levels of Organization
Units 1–8 provide students with a basic understanding of human anatomy and physiology, including its language, the levels of organization, and the basics of chemistry and cell biology. These units provide a foundation for the further study of the body. They also focus particularly on how the body’s regions, important chemicals, and cells maintain homeostasis.
Unit 1 Atoms & Molecules
Unit 2 The Chemistry of Water
Unit 3 Biochemistry
Unit 4 Cell Structure and Function
Unit 5 Cell Biology: Membrane Transport
Unit 6 Tissue: Structure and Function
Unit 7 Body Structure
Unit 8 Homeostasis
Section 2: Support and Movement
Units 9-14 introduce students to the integumentary, skeletal, and muscular systems that provide support and protection to the human body, as well as allow movement.
Unit 9 The Integumentary System
Unit 10 The Skeletal System
Unit 11 Joints
Unit 12 Biomechanics
Unit 13 Muscle Anatomy
Unit 14 Muscle Physiology
Section 3: Nervous Regulation and Integration
In Units 15-18, students explore the structure of the nervous system and how it functions, to prepare them to understand how it is used to regulate other body systems that are discussed in subsequent units.
Unit 15 The Nervous System
Unit 16 The Peripheral Nervous System
Unit 17 Neuronal Signaling
Unit 18 Sensory Systems
Additional sections
The remaining systems of the human body are covered in the companion textbook to this one, designed for Thompson Rivers University’s BIOL 1692 and BIOL 1693 courses.
About the Authors
Thompson Rivers University
Editors
David Kabelik
Contributing Authors
David Kabelik
Douglas College
Editors
Jennifer Barker
Casper De Villiers
Todd Harper
Contributing Authors
Jennifer Barker
Jessie Clasen
Reyniel Cruz-Aguado
Casper De Villiers
Luis R. Gonzalez-Torres
Leon J. Guppy
Todd Harper
Sarwat Jamil
Shamsa Jessa
Weissy Lee
Elinor Matheson
Rosemary Oh-McGinnis
Maxence Salomon
Lynette Sigola-Baretto
Mike Silvergieter
Liza Sutton
Ryan Viveiros
Shelley Weisser
Cheryl Tautorus
Special Thanks
The authors of this textbook wish to thank OpenStax for the initial creation of a college-level open Anatomy & Physiology textbook, without which it is unlikely this edition would have been produced.
The Douglas College authors also wish to thank BCcampus for providing financial support for the development of vector-based images to accompany this textbook, for providing the instance of the Pressbooks platform on which this textbook is hosted, and for providing technical support to the authors. Finally, we wish to thank the remaining faculty members of the Biology Department for their valuable input into the content and organization of this textbook, Sara McKinnon for creating the section on lever systems and its associated diagrams, and Zoir Amirdad for creating many of the scalable vector-based versions of the images found in this textbook and also available as separate auxiliary resources.
