General Studies with Emphasis in Health Science (AA)

• Use library databases and the Internet to efficiently find information relevant to health science.
• Use appropriate terminology to express physical measurements, describe biological processes. identify body structures, and name chemical entities.
• Apply scientific principles to solve practical problems in microbiology, physiology, and chemistry.
• Analyze and interpret experimental or clinical data.
• Demonstrate use of the light microscope to view cells and tissues.
• Describe hemostatic controls and specific functions of the human body.
• Describe relationships between microbes and hosts, as well as between different taxonomic groups of microbes.
• Assess physical, chemical, and antibiotic measures to control or prevent microbial growth.
• Identify and describe common microbes, diseases caused, their modes of transmission, and means to reduce their transmission.
• Describe components of innate and adaptive immune systems and how protection against infections is provided.
• Describe the biology of DNA and microbial genetics.
• Explain how gases, liquids, solids, and solutions behave.
• Predict chemical reactivity, bond types, and molecular polarity from the periodic table and elements.

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