COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY
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The course requires partial proficiency in main subjects of a biology course: english comprehension, mathematics, chemistry, physics, cytology and histology, comparative anatomy, genetics, biochemistry, microbiology, general physiology.
Oral examination
A comparative physiology course intended for BSc students. The course is meant as follow up of the general physiology course and proposes up to date knowledge about comparative physiology. The structure function relationships of different organs will be approached considering also evolutionary aspects. Some examples in the animal kingdom will be exploited. The aim of the course is to promote a logical approach across the borders of various biological disciplines, a prerequisite to understand physiology.
Fundamentals of physiology
Food energy and temperature
Oxygen, carbon dioxide and internal transport
Water salts and excretion
Hill, Wise, Anderson, Animal Physiology, third edition, Sinauer;
lectures slides available on the e-learning website
Lectures
The lecturer meets students by appointment via e-mail.