Lesson: The Liver Biology • Second Year of Secondary School

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In this lesson, we will learn how to describe the structure of the liver and its role in excretion.

Students will be able to

describe the macroscopic structure of the liver including the associated blood vessels, the hepatic vein, the hepatic artery, and the hepatic portal vein,
describe the microscopic structure of the hepatocyte cells of the liver,
describe the role of the liver in breaking down harmful or excess metabolic waste products,
outline the basic process of deamination as the removal of the amino group from amino acids,
describe the ornithine cycle as the process of converting toxic ammonia to urea for excretion.