COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY 2021

 

PCB 4724 - U01  

Syllabus 2021 (click to download)

 

  

 

Class number:  81649.

Instructor: Fernando Gabriel Noriega

Web page Course: http://faculty.fiu.edu/~noriegaf/NoriegaClass.htm

Lectures: Tuesdays-Thursdays 9.30 AM-10.45 AM

Room: Deuxieme Maison 193

Office: 218 B HLS (Health and Life Science Building)

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 Anderson,  4th editions. Sinauer Associates, MA. (2004, 2008 or 2012). They are all OK.

  There will be a total of 100 combined earnable points. 
-    30 points will come from Quizzes.
-    10 points will come from a paper presentation.
-    30 points will come from a Midterm exam.
-    30 points will come from a Final exam.

 

 

Tests and Final exam:  they will consist of written answers to questions (essays).  ALL the tests are CLOSED BOOK

 

 

Numeric Grade Equivalents:

A = 90% - 100% (A- = 89)

B = 80% - 87%   (B+= 88) (B- =79)

C = 70% - 77%   (C+ = 78)(C- = 69)

D = 60% - 67%  (D+= 68)

F = Below  60%

 

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Lecture and Activities

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Date

Topic

Required Reading

Tu 8/24

Introduction (1)

Chapter 1

Th 8/26

Fundamentals of Physiology (2)

Chapter 2

Tu 8/31

Fundamentals of Physiology (3)

Chapter 5

Th 9/2

Comparative Physiology in the post-genomic era (4)

Chapter 3, 4

II. Food, Energy and Temperature

Tu 9/7

Nutrition and feeding (5)

Chapter 6

Th 9/9

Digestion (6)

Chapter 6

Tu 9/14

Energy Metabolism I (7)

Chapter 7- 8

Th 9/16

Energy Metabolism II (8)

Chapter 8-9

Tu 9/21

Thermoregulation I (9)

Chapter 10

Th 9/23

Thermoregulation II (10)

Chapter 10

III. Integrating Systems

Tu 9/28

Neurobiology I (11)

Chapter 12, 13, 15

Th 9/30

Neurobiology II (12)

 Chapter 12, 13, 15

Tu 10/5

Sensory physiology (13)

 Chapter 14

Th 10/7

MIDTERM EXAM (14)

 Chapters 1-14

Tu 10/12

Endocrinology (15)  

Chapter 16

Th 10/14

Muscle (16)

Chapters 19-20

 

V. Gas exchange and internal transport

 

Tu 10/19

Respiration (17)

Chapter 22,23, 24

Th 10/21

Paper. discussion (18)  1 and 2. Gallegos and Garcia Perez

 

Tu 10/26

Paper discussion; (19) 3 and 4. Serrano and Bradleigh

 

Th 10/28

Paper discussion; (20) 5 and 6. Ellis and Cuza

 

Tu 11/2

Paper discussion: (21) 7 and 8.  Rivera and Gonzalez

  

Th 11/4

Paper Discussion (22)   9.   Solis

Quiz on paper 7 Isolation

Tu 11/9

Paper Discussion (23) 11.  Milic

 

Tu 11/18

Circulation (24)       Quiz on paper 9  or 11 (your choice)

Chapter 25

VI. Water, Salt and Excretion

Th 11/23

Water and salt physiology  (26)

Chapter 27,28

Tu 11/30

Excretion (27)

Chapter 29

Th 12/2

Review

 

Tu 12/7

FINAL EXAM

Chapters 16-29