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COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY- Animal Physiology
course introduction, composition of air, water vapor in air, solubility of gases, respiration in water, gills, countercurrent exchange, boundary layers, respiration in air, mammalian lungs |
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air-breathing fish, bird respiration, insect respiration, cyclic respiration, oxygen transport in blood, respiratory pigments, oxygen dissociation curves, facilitated diffusion |
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carbon dioxide transport, pumps and channels, water compartments, circulation patterns, cardiac output, blood vessels, physics of pipe flow, blood pressure, capillaries, exercise, invertebrate circulation, clotting |
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feeding, food types and mechanisms, hydrothermal springs, digestion, enzymes, wood and cellulose digestion, ruminants, nutrition, vitamins, minerals, trace elements, chemical defense, metabolic rate, energy storage, oxygen |
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diving mammals and birds, metabolic rate and body size, size and scaling, energy cost of locomotion, running, swimming and flying, physiological time |
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