3 ECTS credits
90 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 1022280CNR for all students in the 2nd semester
at
a (C) Bachelor - specialised level.
- Semester
- 2nd semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Enrollment Requirements
- Registration for 'Animal Physiology' is allowed if one has successfully accomplished 'General Biology' and 'General Zoology'. Additionally one should be registered for or have successfully accomplished 'Biochemistry'.
- Taught in
- Dutch
- Faculty
- Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences
- Department
- Biology
- Educational team
- Guy Smagghe
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
-
13 contact hours Lecture
13 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
13 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
- Course Content
- The following four main life processes will be discussed during this course:
· Respiration : respiration provides the supply of oxygen required for
Combustion of nutrients : energy supply
· Transport systems : transportation of various substances throughout the body
is a necessity, especially in multiple cell organisms and for high metabolisms.
· Nutrition, ingestion and digestion : the ingested food will be
converted into nutrients which are useful on a cellular level
· Excretion : waste products (including excess and detrimental ones) have
to be removed. CO2 is removed by the respiratory organs; dissolved
substances are removed via the excretion system.
If possible, the programme will be adapted to the interests of doctoral students with a topic relevant to this course;
in this case, a seminar will be organised.
- Course material
- Course text (Required) : Dierenfysiologie, Er is een uitgewerkte syllabus ter beschikking.
Practical course material (Required) : Dierenfysiologie, Recente artikels uit de wetenschappelijke literatuur kunnen een leesopdracht vormen.
- Additional info
An extended syllabus is available. Recent articles from scientific literature may constitute a reading assignment.
- Learning Outcomes
-
General competences
Illustrating and providing insight into animal physiology, focused on the structure, functioning and affinities of the essential life processes of animal organisms. After all, the functioning of an organism or organ is closely related to its structural organisation or morphology. In addition, it will be investigated how the various functions are controlled and integrated. The adaptive abilities of animals to changing circumstances are also part of the field of physiology.
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- written exam
with a relative weight of 1
which comprises 100% of the final mark.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
A written exam focusing on insight.
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Biology: Default track (only offered in Dutch)
Bridging Programme Master of Science in Biology: Standaard (53 SP) (only offered in Dutch)