An environmental approach to animal physiology. Adaptation of animals to their environments and organism-environment interactions at the biochemical through the whole animal level. Laboratories illustrate principles of animal organ system function that allow animals to cope with environmental change. Mr. Miller 327. Comparative anatomy of vertebrates with emphasis on the functional, evolutionary, and biomechanical significance of variations shown by members of different classes.
Laboratories involve the dissection of the organ systems of three representative vertebrate animals.
General and Comparative Endocrinology. Interrelationships of the nervous and endocrine systems in the regulation of growth, metabolism, water, electrolytes, stress, and reproduction in vertebrates. The major sensory modalities will be studiedfrom stimulus transduction to perceptionas models of neural processing. Laboratory includes an independent research project in sensory neurobiology defined, proposed, pursued, and disseminated by small research teams. Same as BFB 330.