The following courses offered by various departments represent possible electives for the student in animal physiology. Structure and function of organ systems of avian species with emphasis on digestion and reproduction. AN PH 301, P S 201 or permission of instructor. Students evaluate the most recent scientific literature in these areas for information, experimental methods and validity of authors' conclusions, and select a problem, review related literature and write a research proposal for solving the problem. A structural and functional study of the basic tissues of animals and tissue makeup of organs.
Emphasis is on light microscopy level with selected tissue studied at the electron microscope level.
One year each of biology, chemistry and physics or permission of instructor. Students will be introduced to computer-aided data acquisition and computer simulations of physiological function. How and where intracellular and extracellular molecules control general and specific cellular functions such as gene expression, secretion, motility, signaling, cell-cycle control and differentiation. Taught and graded at a level where students are expected to infer from and integrate cellular events. Field trips will be required.