PřF:Bi6260 Physiology of adaptations - Course Information
Bi6260 Physiology of adaptations
Faculty of ScienceSpring 2010
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/0/0. 1 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. RNDr. Vladimír Šimek, CSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Vladimír Šimek, CSc.
Department of Experimental Biology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Vladimír Šimek, CSc. - Timetable
- Wed 11:00–11:50 BR2
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- General Biology (programme PřF, B-BI, specialization Physiology of Animals)
- General Biology (programme PřF, M-BI, specialization Physiology of Animals)
- General Biology (programme PřF, N-BI, specialization Physiology of Animals)
- Course objectives
- After the succesfull completion of the course, students will be able to: - discuss the theoretical and practical bases of animal organisms adaptations - survey adaptations on the essential factors of environment - descibe and analyse main mechanisms of the adaptation reactions of animals and a man.
- Syllabus
- Organism adn environment: external a nd internal factors of environment, flexibility and stability of organism.
- General principles of adaptation of organism: adaptation of organism - base conceptions, different levels and types of adptation phenomenona, methodical problems in adaptation eperiments.
- Regulation mechanisms of adaptations: base forms of biological regulation, humoral regulation, regulation by mediation of the nervous system, reciprocal dependcences of regulation mechanisms.
- Adaptation on the principal factors of environment: temperature, nutrition, contents of oxygen, other factors (light, radioactivity, radiation, etc.)
- Troubles of adaptation, perspectives next studies of adaptation phenomenona.
- Literature
- literature is recommended by lecturer
- ŠESTÁK, Zdeněk. Jak psát a přednášet o vědě. Illustrated by Hana Kymrová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1999, 204 s. ISBN 8020007555. info
- Teaching methods
- Theoretical study by means of lectures, textbooks and internet sources.
- Assessment methods
- colloquium
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2010, recent)
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