Overview
This topic uses an integrative approach to understand the range of physiological systems that determine how animals and plants maintain their internal environment (i.e. water and ionic relations, circulation, nutrient acquisition, growth, circadian rhythms) in response to a broad range of external environments, with particular focus on difficult external environments … For more content click the Read More button below.
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Aims
After completing this topic, students should have a basic understanding of how animal and plant physiology influences their perception of and response to the external environment. Students should also be able to integrate their physiological understanding to a range of real-life challenges faced by plants and animals. Students will work on two practical-based research projects, in which they will learn about the collection of physiological data, their analysis, and presentation in a formal report and poster. They will present the content they have learned in lectures through popular-science style summaries.
Learning outcomes
On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
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Understand the basic physiological function (including the associated anatomy) that animals and plants rely on to survive in their external environments
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Understand how knowledge of the physiological constraints of animals and plants enhance the understanding of observed interactions between animals and plants within their environment and with each other
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Have awareness of how evolution has influenced the multitude of physiological alternatives observed in the natural world
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Apply the concepts presented in lectures to unfamiliar examples of animal and plant interactions
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Identify and apply the appropriate statistical testing procedures to test a research hypothesis
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Use an understanding of physiological system function and apply skills for monitoring of animal and plant physiology to execute and report on two research projects
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