Temperature Regulation
Week 15: Temperature classification of animals; Temperature relation of ectotherms in freezing and cold and warm and hot environment. Costs and benefits of ectothermy; Temperature relations of heterotherms and endotherms; Dormancy: Sleep, Torpor, Hibernation and Estivation.
Source: 707-712, 715-732 (Eckert animal physiology by David Randall)
Course Material
- Central themes in Physiology
- Membrane Physiology
- Nerve and Muscle Physiology
- Nerve Physiology and Neurotransmitters
- Muscles types and molecular structure
- Mechanism of Muscle contraction
- Cardiovascular Physiology
- Mid Term Examination
- Endocrine Physiology
- Endocrine Physiology
- Renal Physiology
- Renal Physiology-2
- Respiratory Physiology-1
- Respiratory Physiology-2
- Physiology of Digestion
- Temperature Regulation
- Receptors Physiology
- Final Term Examination
- Practical 1 Demonstration of Hemoglobin content, hematocrit and cell count
- Practical 2 Preparation of blood smear
- Chapters 20
- Department Zoology
- Teacher
Dr. Shafaat Yar Khan
