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 | Course Description
 | This course presents animals- invertebrates and vertebrates, and how they function in their environments. Lecture materials emphasize the familiar subjects of physiology: digestion, respiration, circulation, excretion, muscle and movement. However, these topics are arranged according to major environmental features: food and energy, oxygen, temperature and water. This arrangement is important to understand how living organisms adjust to the adversities of their environment such as – obtaining enough water to live or avoiding too much water, escaping freezing to death or dying from excessive heat, moving about to find suitable surroundings and food.
At the end of the course the students will be able to understand the relationships between anatomical structures and their functions, and how they are correlated and integrated into a smooth functioning organism. Furthermore, they will be able to understand how living organisms adjust to the adversities of their environment, using various modifications of the anatomical and physiological specializations. |
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