Download COMPARATIVE ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY (Level 2, 3 CU) a. Brief

COMPARATIVE ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY (Level 2, 3 CU)
a. Brief Course Description
This course covers organismic and population physiology. Phylogenic approach to the study of systems
integrating invertebrate and vertebrate body functions in relation to environmental conditions;
homeostasis; coordination of body functions in response to external environment; nutrition and energy
production as support to all the body functions.
b. Course Objectives
By the end of the course, the students should be able to:
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Describe the biological body systems that support the integrity of the body
Explain how the intrinsic and extrinsic factors control body functions
Explain the proximate and ultimate factors in the integration of individual and animal populations
in the environment.
c. Detailed Course Descriptions
 Nutrition (6 hrs)
-Types of heterotrophic nutrition and modes of feeding
-Mechanisms of digestion, absorption and assimilation
 Osmoregulation and excretion (4 hrs)
-Osmoregulationin fresh and marine protozoans, marine fish, terrestrial animals, including
earthworms, snail, arthropods, insects, amhibians, birds and mammals.
-Types excretory products
 Comparative circulatory system (5 hrs)
-Types and characteristics of circulatory systems in animals
-Types of oxygen carrying pigments
 Gaseous exchange (5 hrs)
-Different types of respiratory surfaces and their characteristics in promoting gaseous
exchange
 Locomotion (5 hrs)
-Modes and types of locomotion in various media
-Efficiency of various types of locomotion in animals
 Coordination and Homeostasis in animals (5 hrs)
-General functions of coordination in lower and higher animals, types of coordination,
including nervous and chemical coordination
-Coordination of body functions in response to external environment
 Practicals (30 hrs)
d. Mode of Delivery: Lectures, assignments, tutorials and practicals
Assessment:
Practicals, assignments and tests (40%) and examination (60%)
Note: Requirements for Zoology
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Vehicles for transport
Microscopes – binocular and high power and accessories
Collecting equipment for aquatic organisms
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Glassware
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Culture substances and media
Insect collecting, capture and culturing facilities
Insects boxes, pins etc
Chemicals, preservation of speciment, section slides (alcohol, formalin etc)
Apparatus for slide making
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fixing
cutting (mirco
storage cabinets
Bone collections for teaching anatomy
Museum specimens of invert……
Physilogical equipment
Reagents for physiological experiments
Fishing gear for fisheries studies
Camping gear for field work
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for collecting
for culture and storage
for mounting slides
Chemicals
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Reagents
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Organic acids
Inorganic acids
Equipment
Centrifuges
Incubators
Water baths
Heating blocks
Vortex mixers
Fridges
Deep freezers
Electrophoresis apparatus
Blotter
ELISA machine
Chromatography apparatus
Chromatography columns
Blenders
Heating mantles
Freeze-dryer
Rotary evaporators
Thermocyclers
Refractiometersermometers
Laminar flow cabinets
Micro-plate reader
Fourier-transform spectroscopy
Spectrophotometers (U/V – visible)
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High-performance liquid chromatography system
Glassware
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Conical flasks (in their various sizes)
Beakers (in their various sizes)
Volumetric flasks
(in their various sizes)
Measuring cylinders in their various sizes)
Petri-dishes
Burrets
Pipettes
Cuvetts
Test tubes
Universal bottles
Sample bottles
Soxhlet apparatus
Plastic ware
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Rubber tubings
Beakers
Measuring cylinders
Pipette tips (in various sizes)
Pipette trip boxes
Epiendorf tubes
PCR tubes
Colorimeters
Weighing balances
Transilluminator
Ovens
Furnace
Distillers
autoclave