Chapter 37 - Introduction

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To fully appreciate this tutorial, you should be familiar with the concepts of:
• Differences among cells, tissues, and organs
• Basic functions performed by cells, tissues, and membranes

After this tutorial, you will be able to:
• Identify the body's different organ systems.
• Describe how the body's different organ systems operate.
• Describe the specialized functions that the body's different organ systems perform.

What are your body's organ systems and how do they perform specialized functions?

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The integumentary system
The skeletal system
The muscular system
The nervous system
The endocrine system
The circulatory system
The respiratory system
The digestive system
The urinary system
The reproductive systems
Summary

At any moment, millions of precise interactions are occuring in your body. These nonstop activities originate in your cells, tissues, and organs. They become even more complex when you consider how they work together in body systems to help you move, breathe, obtain oxygen, digest food, eliminate wastes, transmit nerve impulses, reproduce, and perform many other functions.

What are the names of these body systems? And how do they each perform their jobs?