Animal Physiology

Master course for biology students - principally aimed at MSc-students specializing in Arctic Animal Physiology. The course is available as a singular course.

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.

Local admission , application code 9371 - - Master`s level singular course.

Admission requires a Bachelor`s degree (180 ECTS) or equivalent qualification, with a major in biology of minimum 80 ECTS.

Previous knowledge: knowledge in animal physiology equivalent to Bio-2002.

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

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

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