BIp015 Animal Physiology

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
1/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
doc. RNDr. Alena Žákovská, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Lucie Losmannová (assistant)
Bc. Barbora Skoumalová (assistant)
Bc. Lucie Sodomková (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Alena Žákovská, Ph.D.
Department of Biology – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Alena Žákovská, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Biology – Faculty of Education
Prerequisites (in Czech)
BIp006 General Zoology && BIp011 Introduction to Chordate Zoology
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to: - understand of body composition (1) - explain the organ (2) and system functions (3) of vertebrates (4) and invertebrates (5). The main aims of laboratory experiments are following: - tested fysiological experiments - acquire knowledge - win laboratory operate - protocol compose.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able to:
- use information about building body systems to understand an individual's homeostasis;
- summarize important features of the main organ functions;
Syllabus
  • 1. Matter body composition 2. Fylogenetic development of fysiological functions. 3. Metabolismus 4. Metabolic functions 5. Reproduction 6. Regulation functions In laboratory experiments student investigates: - water in organism - tissue elements - glycids - peptids - basal metabolismus - oxygen - blood circulation
Literature
  • HRUŠKA, Michal. Fyziologie živočichů a člověka :pro učitele. V Hradci Králové: Gaudeamus, 1994, 189 s. ISBN 80-7041-840-0. info
  • HRUŠKA, Michal. Fyziologie živočichů a člověka :pro učitele. V Hradci Králové: Gaudeamus, 1994, 198 s. ISBN 80-7041-984-9. info
  • HILL, Richard W., Gordon A. WYSE and Margaret ANDERSON. Animal physiology. 3rd ed. Sunderland, Mass.: Sinauer Associates, 2012, 1 sv. ISBN 9780878935598. info
  • VÁCHA, Martin, Ivana FELLNEROVÁ, Vítězslav BIČÍK, Richard PETRÁSEK and Vladimír ŠIMEK. Srovnávací fyziologie živočichů (Comparative animal physiology). 3. dotisk 2. vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2010, 167 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-3379-5. info
  • MOYES, Christopher D. and Patricia M. SCHULTE. Principles of animal physiology. 2nd ed. San Francisco, Calif.: Pearson/Benjamin Cummings, 2008, xxx, 754. ISBN 9780321501554. info
  • HOLINKA, Jiří and Vítězslav BIČÍK. Cvičení z fyziologie živočichů. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 2003, 99 s. ISBN 8024405903. info
Teaching methods
Lectures. Laboratory works.
Assessment methods
Final grade: examination - writting test. 15-30 questions, efficiency 70 %, oral exam credit - realization of experiments with exper. project (1)
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2019, autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2024, recent)
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