COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY 2009
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Syllabus 2009 (clik to get the file)
Instructor: Dr. Fernando Gabriel Noriega
Class number:
88986
Instructor: Fernando Gabriel Noriega
Web page Course: http://www.fiu.edu/~noriegaf/NoriegaClass.htm
Lectures: Tuesdays-Thursdays 9.30 AM-10.45 AM
Room: GC 286
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 study how physiological processes in groups of
unrelated animals have evolved to cope with similar environmental challenges.
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.
Papers: 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% - 89%
C = 70% - 79%
D = 60% - 69%
F = Below
60%
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Lecture and Activities Schedule 8
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Date |
Topic |
Required |
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Tu 8/25 |
Introduction (1) |
Chapter 1 |
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Th 8/27 |
Fundamentals of Physiology (2) |
Chapter 2 |
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Tu 9/1 |
Fundamentals of Physiology (3) |
Chapter 4 |
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Th 9/3 |
Comparative Physiology in the post-genomic era (4) |
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II. Food, Energy and Temperature |
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Tu 9/8 |
Nutrition and feeding (5) |
Chapter 5 |
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Th 9/10 |
Digestion (6) |
Chapter 5 |
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Tu 9/15 |
Energy Metabolism I (7) |
Chap 6-7 |
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Th 9/17 |
Energy Metabolism II (8) |
Chapter 7-8 |
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Tu 9/22 |
Thermoregulation I (9) |
Chapter 9 |
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Th 9/24 |
Thermoregulation II (10) |
Chapter 9 |
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III. Integrating Systems |
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Tu 9/29 |
Neurobiology I (11) |
Chapter 11,12, |
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Th 10/1 |
Neurobiology II (12) |
Chapter 11,12 |
| BEGGINING OF material included in FINAL EXAM | ||
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Tu 10/6 |
Sensory physiology (13) |
Chapter 13 |
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Th 10/15 |
Endocrinology (15) |
Chapter 15 |
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Tu 10/20 |
Muscle (16) |
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Th 10/22 |
Respiration (17) |
Chapter 21,22 |
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Th 11/5 |
Circulation (21) |
Chapter 23,24 |
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Tu 11/10 |
Water and salt physiology 1 (22) |
Chapter 26 |
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Th 11/19 |
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Th 11/24 |
Excretion (26) |
Chapter 28 |
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Tu 12/1 |
Environmental Comparative Physiology (27) |
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Th 12/3 |
QUIZ and Opportunity to ask questions (28) |
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Tu 12/8 |
FINAL EXAM 9.45-12.30 |
final review above |