NOTE! This course belongs to a previous semester/year
About the course
May be taken as a singular course, but the course is oriented towards MSc-students in Arctic Animal Physiology. Previous knowledge: knowledge in animal physiology equivalent to Bio-2002
The course reviews the physiology of animals with emphasis on the basic mechanisms behind specialized functions in different tissue types/organs, and the mechanisms that regulate and maintain homeostasis in an integrated organism. The course reviews physiological adaptations in animals with different modes of living in different environments, with respect to nutrition and energetics, metabolism and temperature regulation, neuronal, sensory and endocrine mechanisms, reproduction and biological clocks, muscles and movement, respiration and circulation and balance of water and salt.
Objectives of the course
Knowledge:
Explain the general principles of function in individual tissues/organs and how they are integrated in the organism
Explain how the functions of organs are modified and adapted in organisms living in different environments
Demonstrate and explain how physiological mechanisms may limit or potentiate the process of adaptation
Present and explain typical examples of physiological adaptations to special environments with respect to nutrition, energetics, locomotion, circulation, respiration, water- and salt balances and neuronal and sensory orientation
Skills:
Review and communicate, both orally and in writing, current knowledge from the recommended reading/syllabus
Teach Animal Physiology at Bachelor- and MSc levels and communicate own research at MSc level
General skills:
Apply the knowledge and information which is required to plan own research in Animal Physiology at the PhD level
Review and extract relevant scientific literature in the process of presenting and discussing own research (MSc) findings
Analyze and criticize scientific research within own (MSc) discipline
Credit reduction
If you pass the examination in this course, you will get an reduction in credits (as stated below), if you previously have passed the following courses:
BIO-3327 General animal physiology 5 stp
Teaching methods
Seminars/colloquia
Language of instruction and examination
English
Recommended reading/syllabus
Hill, Wyse and Anderson Animal Physiology, Sinauer Ass.Inc., 2. ed. 2008
Assessment
Written exam, 6 hours. Grade: A-F, F is failed. Course woek requirements: one oral 30 min presentation of a given topic from the recommended reading/syllabus (Hill et al., Animal Physiology)
