COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY 2011
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Instructor: Dr. Fernando Gabriel Noriega
Class number: 82676
Instructor: Fernando Gabriel Noriega
Web page Course: http://www2.fiu.edu/~noriegaf/NoriegaClass.htm
Lectures: Tuesdays-Thursdays 9.30 AM-10.45 AM
Room: ECS 145
Office: 218 B HLS (Health and
Phone: 305-348 6632
Email: noriegaf@fiu.edu
Office hours: Thursdays 1 PM- 4 PM
Prerequisites: General Biology I and II, Organic
Chemistry I
Course Objectives: To use a comparative approach to understand how physiological processes in groups of unrelated animals have evolved to cope with similar environmental challenges.
Required
Text: Animal
Physiology, Hill, Wyse and
Grading: There will be a total of 100 combined earnable points.
- 30 points will come from Quizzes.
- 10 points will come from a paper.
-
30
points will come from a Midterm exam.
-
30
points will come from a Final exam.
Quizzes: There will be a short quiz during the first 10 minutes of most classes. If you are late, the time is lost. Each quiz is a single question that you must answer with a short and concise paragraph. You will be permitted to drop 20% of quiz scores in determining your final quiz grade, so the 80% highest quiz scores will be used to determine your quiz grade. The quizzes will cover material from the lectures and the assigned reading.
Paper discussions: Write and present a paper on topic
and format to be discussed.
Midterm and Final exams: they will consist of
written answers to questions in a similar format as the daily quiz.
Numeric Grade Equivalents:
A = 90% - 100%
B = 80% - 87%
C = 70% - 77%
D = 60% - 67%
F = Below
60%
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Lecture and Activities Subject to changes
|
Date |
Topic |
Required |
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Tu 8/23 |
Introduction (1) |
Chapter 1 |
|
Th 8/25 |
Fundamentals of Physiology
(2) |
Chapter 2 |
|
Tu 8/30 |
Fundamentals of Physiology
(3) |
Chapter 4 |
|
Th 9/1 |
Comparative Physiology in the
post-genomic era (4)
|
Chapter 3 |
|
II. Food, Energy and
Temperature |
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|
Tu 9/6 |
Nutrition and feeding (5) |
Chapter 5 |
|
Th 9/8 |
Digestion
(6)
|
Chapter 5 |
|
Tu 9/13
|
Energy
Metabolism I
(7) |
Chapter 6-7 |
|
Th
9/15 |
Energy Metabolism II
(8)
|
Chapter 7-8 |
|
Tu 9/20 |
Thermoregulation I
(9)
|
Chapter 9 |
|
Th 9/22 |
Thermoregulation II (10)
|
Chapter 9 |
|
III. Integrating Systems |
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|
Tu 9/27 |
Neurobiology I
(11) |
Chapter 11,12 |
|
Th 9/29 |
Neurobiology
II
(12) |
Chapter 11,12 |
|
10/11 |
Sensory physiology
(13) |
Chapter 13 |
|
Tu 10/18 |
MIDTERM EXAM (14) |
Chapters 1-13 |
|
10/20 |
Endocrinology No
quiz
(15) |
Chapter
15 |
|
|
IV Muscle |
|
|
Tu 10/25 |
Muscle (16) |
Chapters 18-19 |
|
|
V. Gas exchange and internal
transport |
|
|
Th 10/27 |
Respiration
(17) |
Chapter 21,22 |
|
Tu 11/1 |
Paper discussion: Groups 1
and 2 (18) |
|
|
Th 11/3 |
Paper discussion: Groups 3
and 4. (19) |
|
|
Tu 11/8 |
Paper
discussion: Groups 5 and 6.
(20) |
|
|
Th 11/10 |
|
|
|
Tu 11/15 |
Paper discussion: Groups 9
and 10.
(22) |
|
|
Th 11/17 |
Circulation
(23) |
Chapter 23,24 |
|
|
VI. Water, Salt and
Excretion |
|
|
Tu 11/22 |
Water and salt physiology
1
(24) |
Chapter 26 |
|
Tu 11/29 |
Water and salt physiology 2 (25) |
Chapter 27 |
|
Th 12/1 |
Excretion (26) |
Chapter 28 |
|
Tu 12/6 |
FINAL EXAM |
Chapters 15-28 |