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Human Biology

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Take Human Biology online at your own pace

Explore what makes people tick with Sophia’s online Human Biology course. Satisfy your general education requirements by taking this college-level course designed to transfer.

Human Biology course stats

49226
71842 students successfully completed
72 partners accept credit transfer.* See Partners
3.0 semester credits
Recommended for credit to the ACE® and DEAC college and university networks.
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Assignments & grading

This is a pass/fail course. You must complete 21 Challenges (formative assessments) and 7 Milestones (summative assessments) with an overall score of 70% or better.

Learning outcomes

<p>At the end of the course, you'll be able to:</p> <ul><li>Recognize the basic structure and function of human life.</li><li>Recognize the structures responsible for support, protection, and movement in the human body.</li><li>Characterize the role of the nervous system, endocrine system, and senses in the human body.</li><li>Articulate the correlations between the fluids of the body and their role in transport of nutrients, proteins and cells.</li><li>Identify the respiratory, digestive and urinary systems and their role in energy and maintenance of the human body.</li><li>Describe the process of human development and how inheritance produces variation among offspring.</li></ul>

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