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BIOLOGY 350- ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY

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Room 109 Biology
Watch these videos Windows Media VERSION Part 1 & part 2

Dr. Thomas Kaufman's seminar. These are big files. You have to download to your computer, then open to watch. Think about what significance do fruit flies serve for breakthroughs in understanding diseases that inflict humans?

OLD EXAMS (used in a summer course; MS Word 2003 format)

2006 summer Test 1, Test 2, Test 3, Test 4

2009 summer Test1, Test 2, Test 3, Test 4

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Fall 2011:

Biology Building

 

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Lecture: Biology, Rm. 109 lecture and Rm 202 for lab

Labs are scheduled Monday, Wed and Friday 10:30-1:30 each day.

Lecture 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM.

Text book: It is listed in Kennedy's Book store under "Bio 350"

Title: Eckert Animal Physiology: Mechanisms and Adaptations, Fifth Edition, by David Randall, Warren Burggren, and Kathleen French.
http://www.whfreeman.com/newcatalog.aspx?isbn=0716738635

BIOLOGY 350- ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY
Instructor:
Dr. Robin L. Cooper
RLCOOP1@email.uky.edu
Office: Morgan building-226
Tel: 257-5950
Office Hours: email for time
WWW Home page (go to)

 

 

Teaching assistant for the course:

Lab Facilitator

Ms. WenHui Wu
wuwenhui2@gmail.com
Office: Room 226
Tel: 257-5950
Office Hours: email for appt.

Mr. Michael Crum
michael_crum@mac.com
Biology Department


Down load PDF files: Course rules (see below) Chapter questions to focus on (go to)
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Course schedule (see below) (go to)

Download PPT files (go to)

COURSE OUTLINE

Biology 350

Biology 350 SUMMER 2011 Instructor: Cooper

Text: Animal Physiology (5th Edition) by Randall, Burggren, and French


Prereq: BIO 150-153 or equivalent; BIO 315; CHE 105, 107.

Lecture: Biological Sciences, Rm. 109; MTWRF 08:00AM-10:00AM
Recitation/Lab: MWF 10:30AM-1:30PM, Rm 202 (2nd floor)

Since this is a summer course the hours of the lecture and lab will be intermixed. So some lecture material will be given during the lab time and some lab related material will be given during the lecture times.

Start time:
Lecture: May 10, 2011 to June 7, 2011
http://www.iris.uky.edu/coursecatalog/


Instructor:
Dr. Robin Cooper
RLCOOP1@email.uky.edu
Office: Room 226 Morgan Building
Phone: 257-5950

TA:
Ms. Wenhui Wu
wenhui.wu@uky.edu
Office: Room 226 Morgan Building
Phone: 257-5950

COURSE OUTLINE
Lecture Day, Date, Topic Reading
T....... 5/10....... Introduction to course and physiology .......Chapt 1&2 (Podcast 05102011A)
T....... 5/10 .......Molecules, Energy and Biosynthesis .......Chapt 3 (Podcast 05102011B)
W....... 5/11 .......Membranes, Channels and Transport .......Chapt. 4 Podcast 05112011A,  05112011B, 05112011C)

ECHO files (just click on link and then click on purple box that opens): A:
http://echo.uky.edu:8080/ess/echo/presentation/e2ada223-9d3b-407a-b5af-41c762f2d6da
B:
http://echo.uky.edu:8080/ess/echo/presentation/ee1d0e52-3055-4e00-a352-41f0a07374cb
C:
http://echo.uky.edu:8080/ess/echo/presentation/a2b34827-05ff-4517-b44f-3e2934c3e73a

W ....... 5/11 .......Neuronal function .......Chp 4&5, ( I know it is going fast so you might need this as guidance)
TH....... 5/12....... Neuronal function .......Chp 4&5 (Podcast 05122011A, 05122011B)
Th....... 5/12.......Neuronal function....... Chp 4&5

Echo 05122011A or 05122011 B

F....... 5/13 .......Neuronal function-communication .......Chp 6 (podcast 05132011)
Echo 05132011

F.......5/13..............................REVIEW
M ....... 5/16…. Exam 1 (2 hours) …. Followed by lab time
T.......5/17.......Neuronal function-communication .......Chp 6 ATROPINE PDF (podcast 05172011A, 05172011B)
T....... 5/17 .......Sensory Mechanisms .......Chapt. 7

ECHO 05172011A, 05172011B

W....... 5/18 .......Sensory Mechanisms .......Chapt. 7 (podcast 05182011A, 05182011B)
W.......5/18 .......Sensory Mechanisms .......Chapt. 7, parts of ch 8 & 11

ECHO 05182011A, 05182011B (some ECHO recordings did not have sound on, so you can use the podcast for hearing the lecture)


TH....... 5/19 .......Muscle .......Chapt.10 (does it feel like there are 8 days in the week- well hear this go to
TH....... 5/19 .......Muscle....... Chapt 10,
(podcast for the day but on chapter 7 ; 05192011A, 05192011B)

ECHO 05192011A, 05192011B


F......... 5/20 ....... Catch up on Muscle  (Chp 10) and Chapters 8 and 9
(podcast 05202011A, 05202011B)
F....... 5/20 ..............................REVIEW & Endocrine: Hormones, mechanisms of action.....Chapt. 9

ECHO 05202011A, 05202011B


M....... 5/23 Catch up time and data review.…. Followed by lab time
(podcast 05232011A; 05232011B)

ECHO 05232011A (Only A)

T…… 5/24.....Exam 2 (2 hours)
W……5/25… Endocrine: Thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal and pancreas .......Chapt. 9 (Podcast 05252011A, 05252011B)

ECHO 05252011A, 05252011B

TH....... 5/26 ......Endocrine: Thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal and pancreas .......Chapt. 9 (Medical aspects of endocrine-ppt)
TH....... 5/26 .......Endocrine: reproduction .......Chp 9
(podcast 05262011A, 05262011B)

ECHO 05262011A, 05262011B

F ...... 5/27 .......Cardiovascular .......Chapt. 12 (Podcast 05272011A, 05272011B)

ECHO 05272011A, 05272011B


M....... 5/30 Holiday
T….. .5/31…….
.......Excretion GI & Renal .......Chp13 & 14 You need to relax a bit...here you go play
(Podcast 05312011A, 05312011B)

ECHO 05312011A, 05312011B

W……6/1…… we will still be on respriation....Excretion GI & Renal .......Chp13 & 14 REVIEW Followed by lab time

(Podcasts 06012011A, 06012011BECHO 06012011A, 06012011B


TH....... 6/2.......Exam 3 (2 hour)
(before the exam if you play this you can relax..... play)

F.........6/3......Digestion .......Chapt. 15 and review of all course content .... (MOVE ch 14 to here for final exam material)
ALSO Review p.673 (RQ); p677 (fig 16.7); p689 & p691-2; p.703 (fig 17.4); p 707 (fig 17-7)
P 711 (fig17.14); P720 (fig 17.22); page 730-1 (fig 17.33 & 17.35)

(Podcast 06032011A, 06032011B, 06032011C)

ECHO 06032011A, 06032011B, 06032011C

M .....6/6…..…. Catch up time...................REVIEW ......Lab write up due and make up exams are taken

podcast 06062011A, 06062011B     ECHO 06062011A, 06062011B


T…...6./7..... FINAL EXAM @ 8:00-10:00 AM (2 hours) (more fun here)

Summer 2011

In this course you will gain knowledge of and an appreciation for the amazing diversity of strategies animals have developed for being able to survive, reproduce, and THRIVE in every ecosystem on this planet. Penguins survive beautifully in Antarctica, but humans can only survive there using extraordinary measures we would die within minutes if left naked on the shelf. You will learn WHY penguins survive and we cannot; why some people are diabetic, and how insulin can control this disease. You will also find out what happens to your body during exams (sure stress, but what IS stress and why is it sometimes very useful, other times, deadly?). You'll be able to amaze your friends, your parents, your employers with your grasp and knowledge of the intricacies of animal physiology, why starfish 'explode' if placed in freshwater, what commonalties we share with whales, and much more. So, get 'psyched' and get ready to work! There is a lot to learn, but if you keep at it consistently, you'll keep your stress levels down and enjoy the course.

One way of defining life is by the living organism's ability to maintain an internal environment which is different from the external environment. Furthermore, living organisms maintain a relatively constant internal environment in spite of the changing external environment. This phenomena was first clearly described by the great French physiologist Claude Bernard. The object of this course will be for you to learn how various organ systems function to bring about a relatively stable internal environment. To fully understand how organs accomplish homeostasis you must be able to apply the basic principles of mathematics, chemistry, physics and biochemistry.

Your understanding of homeostasis and the underlying principles will be tested four times during the semester. Each examination may consist of multiple choice, true/false, short answer and/or essay questions. Each of the first 3 examinations will have a possible 90 points. The fourth exam will be a mix final exam and material covered since the last exam worth 130 points. The fourth exam will have a substantial part of comprehensive material. There will only be one make-up exam if one of the other exams is missed. The make-up will take place immediately after the fourth exam during the second hour of the two hours allotted during the final exam period. The makeup will be a comprehensive exam covering the material during the entire course. Exams may include take home essays or essays assigned in class prior to exam dates to take home and complete prior to each exam. The grades on these essays may factor into the lecture exam grade. The essays are to be emailed and/or printed out as the assignment will state. These essays will be posted on blackboard and/or the class www page. It will be the students responsibility to check the blackboard and/or www page for assignments and the due dates.

There is a 3 hour lab period with this course. The object of this lab is for you to ask questions about any material that you did not understand in either the lectures. Questions are listed for each chapter which you should understand. These can be discussed during the lab time. You will receive two points for coming to lab. Lab is the time to ask! Your teaching assistants are at these labs to help you; however, if you do not prepare yourself by reading and trying to understand the course material they will not be able to help. Teaching assistants need feedback at these sessions; they are not there to lecture and add new material. They are there to help you understand the material, therefore you must know before you arrive what you do not understand. Attendance will be taken at each lab and you will be given 2 points each time you attend. Short quizzes may also be given (6 points) at the beginning of class and count in the grading of the lab part of the course. The fraction of the lab grade for the course will equal 85 points (the total points from assignments and attendance will be normalized so that 85 total points will be obtained for a perfect record).

(9 lab days x 6 points) + (9 lab days x 2 points for attending and working) + (10 points for lab performace) + (7 points for having data in a meaningful manner) = 85 points total.

Lab report: 15 points

Lab performance: 10 points for lab performace. Counted in lab grade. This is graded based on you getting data to your facilitator for the section and participating in the laboratory excercises.

GRADES
There will be a total of approximately 500 points in this course: 90 pts for Exam 1, 90 points for Exam 2, 90 points for exam 3 and 130 points for Exam 4 as well as 85 points for attending each lab along with handing in any homework. One lab write up =15.The final grades will be assigned based on calculated percentages.

Total = 500 points
Grade Calculated Percentage Points
A 100-90.0
B 89.9-80.0
C 79.9-70.0
D 69.9-60.0
E 59.9 or lower
*This grading scale is based on expected performance in past sections, however, we reserve the right to make any necessary changes to the grading scale based on the final grade distributions.

UNIVERSITY POLICY ON EXCUSED AND UNEXCUSED ABSENCES
The following are acceptable reasons for excused absences:
1. serious illness of student (doctor's note required)
2. illness or death of family member (doctor's note required)
3. University related trips (such as to a football game for a team member or band member, official note required)
4. Major religious holidays. Students MUST notify instructor IN WRITING of all semester holidays to assure being excused.

ABSENCE FROM LAB, MISSED HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS
If you miss a lab, or fail to hand in your homework at the beginning of class each week, you will lose the points associated with these. If you want credit for these omissions, you must contact your TA within three calendar days of the omission and present your TA with a doctor's note within 3 calendar days of the omission. If you missed the lab or did not hand in your data or take the quiz on time due to reasons other than illness, assignment of credit is at the discretion of the TA. You will find that it is in your best interest to hand in data assignments and take the quiz, even if late, although you may not receive credit for them.

MAKE UP EXAMS
If you miss an EXAM #1, 2 or 3, you will have to make up the missed exam in the hour immediately following the 1st hour of Exam #4. These make-ups will be comprehensive over the entire textbook.

If you miss two exams you will be encourage to take an incomplete in the course.

In all cases, you must present a doctor's note, or other (as outlined above) to the instructors within 3 calendar days of missing any exam.

There is no make up exam for EXAM #4 (Final). If you miss the final, you will not be able to take an incomplete in the course without discussing with us the reasons for missing the exam, and then filling out and signing an incomplete form with the department. If we feel an incomplete is warranted, we will determine the conditions necessary to satisfy the incomplete at that time.

REGRADING EXAMS
We are happy to fix any errors or irregularities in grades. If you feel that there was an error in grading your exam, you must submit your request in writing, detailing which questions you feel are in error and why your answer(s) should receive additional credit. For instance, if there is information in the text book that supports your answer, quote the information from the book and provide the page and paragraph number. All requests must be submitted within 3 days of posting of the answer key in order for the scores to be changed.

CHEATING AND PLAGIARISM
Cheating and plagiarism are academic offenses that are not tolerated at the University of Kentucky. The minimum for either of these offenses is a failure in the course. Suspension and dismissal may result from repeated or more serious offenses.

DEAD WEEK

As previously noted, "Dead Week" refers to the final week of classes prior to final examinations. In 2009, the University Senate modified the Dead Week Policy as follows:

5.2.4.6 Dead Week [US: 4/13/09]

1. The last week of instruction of a regular semester is termed "Dead Week.” In the rest of these Rules, this term also refers to the last three days of instruction of a summer session and a summer term.
2. In cases of "Take Home" final examinations, students shall not be required to return the completed examination before the regularly scheduled examination period for that course.
3. No written examinations, including final examinations, may be scheduled during the Dead Week.
4. No quizzes may be given during Dead Week.
5. No project/lab practicals/paper/presentation deadlines or oral/listening examinations may be scheduled to fall during the Dead Week unless it was scheduled in the syllabus AND the course has no final examination (or assignment that acts as a final examination) scheduled during finals week. A course with a lab component may schedule the lab practical of the course during Dead Week if the lab portion does not also require a Final Examination during finals week.
6. Make-up exams and quizzes are allowed during Dead Week; these are exempt from the restrictions stated in C, D and E.
7. Class participation and attendance grades are permitted during Dead Week.
8. The current wording of this rule does not prohibit continuing into Dead Week regularly assigned graded homework that was announced in the class syllabus. [RC: 9/09]


Suggested questions at the end of each chapter

Ch. 1: Chapter 1: 1, 2

........PDF of text handed out in class

................PDF 1-Evol. Med PDF or MS WORD

................PDF 2- Ice Fish PDF or MS WORD

Look at oxidative stress paper (PDF)

Ch. 2: NA

Ch. 3: 8, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 21, 30

Lactate, not pyruvate, is neuronal aerobic glycolysis end product: an in vitro electrophysiological study. {PDF}

 

Ch. 4: 1, 10,11, 13, 15, 19

Ch. 5: 3, 4, 6. 9, 16, 19

Chapter 6: 2, 3 . Also fun sensory activities in lab as well as going over the exam.

Chapter 6: 7, 8, 12, 14, 18

Chapter 7:1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 14

Mean quantal content HW Handed out. See these if you loose the one in recitation: PDF , MS word or Gif file

Chapter 8: 3, 6, 9

Discuss [PDF4] & [PDF5]

Chapter 10: 1, 3, 6, 12, 19, 22

READ OVER : PDF 1, PDF 2

here is a general link (go to)

Chapter 11: 2, 13

You should be able to answer these questions (you might see them again) !

Reading: in chapter 9

Questions for recitation

1. Discuss the differences between autocine, paracrine, neurocrine and endocrine secretion.

2. What are pheromones?

3. Explain how catecholamines can have so many different actions.

4. Discuss examples that illustrate the intimate functional association of the nervous and endocrine systems.

5. How can a single second messenger, (e.g. cAMP or IP3) induced by binding of different hormones, mediate different cellular responses in different tissues?

6. Explain how a small number of hormone molecules can elicit cell responses involving millions of times as many molecules?

 

 

EXTRA Note:

To the issue about CHOLESTEROL and fluidity of biological membranes within normal temperatures. There maybe differences in the teaching on this point in Cell Biology and Animal Physiology so keep in mind which system, animal or bacteria, and the normal operating temperatures for the organisms.

In relation to Bio350 ANIMAL physiology and NOT bacterial cells the point is that cholesterol decreases fluidity in biological membranes of mammals.

Lets see the text by Lodish et al., (4th edition, 2000) Molecular Cell Biology

Page 165:

"Membrane cholesterol is another major determinate of bilayer fluidity....... The net effect of cholesterol on membrane fluidity varies, depending on the lipid composition. ...... At the high concentrations found in eukaryotic plasma membranes, cholesterol tends to make the membranes less fluid at growth temperatures near 37C."


DOWNLOAD Powerpoint files (as PDF files or ppt files)

 

Chapter 1-3 {ppt} {PDF}

Chapter 4 {ppt} {PDF}

Chapter 5 {ppt} {PDF}

Chapter 6 {ppt-a} {PDF-a}, {ppt-b} {PDF-b}

Chapter 7 {ppt-a} {PDF-a}, {ppt-b} {PDF-b}

Chapter 8 {ppt} {PDF}

Chapter 10 {ppt-a} {PDF-a}, {ppt-b} {PDF-b}

Chapter 11 (ppt) {PDF}

 

chapter 9 {ppt-a; ppt--b} {PDF-a; PDF-b}

chapter 12 {ppt-a; ppt-b} {PDF-a; PDF-b}

chapter 13 {ppt-a; ppt-b} {PDF-a; PDF-b}

chapter 14 {ppt-a; ppt-b} {PDF-a; PDF-b}

chapter 15 {ppt-a; ppt-b} {PDF-a; PDF-b}

chapter 16 {ppt} {PDF}

chapter 17 {ppt} {PDF}

 

 

Neat Information:

About Myelin (PDF1) & (PDF2)

About folic acid (pdf)

Male Brain (pdf)

Drug MDMA (ectasy) (PDF)

neg pH (pdf)

Imprint genes (pdf)

Music & Brain (pdf)

Kiss & Run (pdf)

Neat PDF on nerve gas agents (PDF)

The leech model and glia cells (PDF)

 

 

STUDENT ACTIVITIES IN BIOLOGY

1. SPUR- Society for Promotion of Undergraduate Research.

It is a great new club for anyone in research, or who is interested in doing research.By the way, for those of you that were interested in getting a lab position, the first step is to fill out an application, the link below will take you directly to it. The application may seem long/unneccesary, but it is not a
selective process. http://www.uky.edu/EUREKA/SPUR/home.html

2. TRI- BETA

UK Beta Beta Beta Biology Honors Society

http://web.as.uky.edu/Biology/TriBeta/default.htm

 

OVERHEADS used in class:

 

 

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