Menstrual Cycle Animation

Click here for an animation about the menstrual cycle.

Click here or a second animation about the menstrual cycle. This one is more advanced, but helpful.

Female Reproductive System

Click here to access a website about the female reproductive system. On the website, click on the diagram of the female reproductive system, and then if you click on each of the organs a bubble will appear with information about the organ.

1. What are the main female hormones?
2. What hormones stimulate the gonads to produce their hormones?

Male Reproductive System

Click here to access a website with information on the male reproductive system.
On the website you will find links to articles with useful information on human general health. Which articles and pieces of information did you find more interesting?

1. Where does meiosis occur in males?
2. What is the product of meiosis in males?
3. What is the main hormone produced by the testicles?
4. What is the function of this male hormone?
5. Can you identify and describe the function of three organs of the male reproductive system?

Spermatogenesis and Oogenesis

Click here to view an animation about spermatogenesis. Take the quiz at the end. How did you do?

Click here to view an animation about oogenesis.

Meiosis Animation

Click here to view an animation about meiosis.

Mitosis Animations

Click here for a narrated animation of mitosis. Take the quiz when you are finished. How did you do? Do you want to view the animations we watched during class? Click here to view the animation by CELLS alive and here to view the second animation.

Enjoy!

How is an antigen involved in the immune response?

Click here for a short animation of how antigens stimulate antibody production. There are several other immune system animations on the right side of the page! Enjoy:)

Did you watch any of the other animations? If so, which ones were the most helpful or relevant?

Vaccines

Vaccines are used to expose the immune system to harmful antigens and teach the body how to fight back. Vaccines contain a form of dead or weakened pathogens. This causes our body to release antibodies in response to this type of pathogen.

After fighting off the vaccine, the body retains a lasting memory of how to fight off that particular type of attack. Watch this animation to learn more.

What diseases have you been vaccinated against?

Allergies

Allergies are part of your body's non-specific immune system. Watch this animation to learn more.

What types of allergies do you suffer from?

Antibody Animation

This 3D medical animation shows how antibodies stop harmful pathogens from attaching themselves to healthy cells in the blood stream. The animation begins by showing normal red and white blood cells flowing through the blood stream. A single pathogen appears onscreen slowly moving toward its destination on the surface of a cell. The tubular extensions on the pathogen are surface proteins which attach to the surface of a white blood cell. As the animation continues, more pathogens continue to attach to the white blood cell, rendering it ineffective.

During the immune system response, Y-shaped antibodies begin attacking the pathogen. The antibodies completely block the pathogen from attaching to the white blood cell, "tagging" the pathogen so that one of the immune system's leaner and meaner cells, a macrophage, appears onscreen to engulf and digest the pathogen.

Glands of the Endocrine System

Click here to learn more about the glands of the endocrine system.

At the GAP - the synapse, that is!

Click here for a detailed animation of how the nervous system processes information. Be patient, the animation moves rather slowly, but there is a great deal of useful information about how messages are carried throughout the body, specifically through nerve cells.

How does diffusion play a part in the transmission of nerve impulses?