1. FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION

2. Take 2-3 minutes to discuss with your partner what the object below is
Take 2-3 minutes to discuss with your partner what the object below is. How do you know?

3. What do all of these share in common?

4. How do each of these instruments work? How do you know?

5. What do each of these do? What allows them to do their job?

6. What does each of these structures do? Why?

7. Big Idea Form follows Function
This means that how things look (its shape), is dictated by the specific job they are supposed to do
Form fits function at all the levels of life, from molecules to organisms.
Knowledge of a structure provides insight into what it does and how its works.
Conversely, knowing the function of a structure provides insight about its construction.

8. What does each limb do? Explain how the structure of each of these limbs allows it to complete its function.

9. Relationship to Stem Cells
In order to understand all of human physiology and for our purposes now why stem cells are so important
Stem Cells do Not have a job
Said to be undifferentiated
Once differentiated they have a specific job, and are no longer stem cells.

10. Look at the picture below, with your partner determine what each cells job is, and how the shape of each cell enables it to do its job.