This document has hints and comments for some of the Short Answer questions. This should
allow you to see the general types of things I am looking for. You can use this document to
check your answers. If you are checking off the items in the question, you are off to a great
start.
Organize your answer, write well, and present it in such a way that your information is easy to
find. Your answers also need to be precise and concise. Some students add so much information
(some of it relevant and some of it not) that it looks like they are throwing everything against the
wall and hoping something sticks. This tells me you haven’t really thought about your response,
and that is a no-no.
Remember whenever you see “homeostasis,” flow-down-gradients,” or “cell-to-cell signaling,”
think about our core concept and the bulleted items. Then, apply that concept to the specific
question. Finally, remember this is physiology so think about the function or “how” something occurs.