Animal Physiology

Section: Unit 4: Osmoregulation | Animal Physiology | Learners4Life@UNIMAS

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  Welcome to Animal Physiology

   

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  This course provides students with an understanding of how animals adapt physiologically to environmental challenges and addresses the basic physical and chemical principles that underlie physiological processes. Several biological systems are considered, including respiratory, circulatory, digestive and metabolic, thermoregulatory, osmoregulatory, renal, nervous, musculoskeletal, hormonal, sensory and reproduction.

  
  

  

  
  

  By the end of this course, students will be able to:

  • distinguish the general physiology of animals

  • explain the physiological problems faced by animals,how those problems vary in relation to the animals environments, and the processes by which animals solve their problems

  • measure the physiological processes and relates to anatomical structures

  • integrate critical thinking and scientific knowledge about issues in animal physiology and organize them in an effective manner 

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  	PROFESSOR DR. ANDREW ALEK TUEN BSc (Hons) from Leeds University (UK), MSc from James Cook University (Australia) and PhD from UPM Serdang (Malaysia). Started his career as a lecturer in UPM in 1983 and joined UNIMAS in 1994. In UNIMAS he has taught 17 undergraduate courses in animal resource science and management program and 3 courses for MSc. His research interest is in documenting the distribution and abundance of wildlife in disturbed and undisturbed habitats and investigating the factors that determines wildlife distribution and abundance. He has published >90 research and review articles in journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. Earlier papers (prior to 1994) dealt with various aspects of farm animal husbandry, especially ruminant physiology and nutrition. Post 1994, the publications are mainly in the area of biodiversity assessment and conservation, and foraging ecology.
  	DR. CHONG YEE LING BSc (Biotechnology) UPM (Malaysia), MSc (Molecular Microbiology) UNIMAS (Malaysia) and PhD (Biology) Pennsylvania State University (USA).  She worked on the genetic diversity and antimicrobioal profiling of Escherichia coli in bats and rodents for her MSc thesis. Later, she furthered her PhD with special interest on molecular evolution of pigeon paramyxovirus. Her general research interest focuses on understanding the ecology and evolutionary dynamics of pathogens, particularly those with zoonotic potentials. She is currently teaching 6 undergraduate courses, including Animal Physiology course as Course Coordinator since 2012. Together with Badiozaman, they had initiated UNIMAS Open Courseware (OCW) for Animal Physiology course in 2014. She is currently the Programme Coordinator for Animal Resource Science and Management since 2014 and the Managing Editor for Borneo Journal Resource Science & Technology (BJRST) since 2012.
  	DR. LEE KUI SOON Lee Kui Soon was a former student in UNIMAS. He obtained his bachelor degree in Biotechnology Resource and was awarded with Royal Academic Award in 2001. He also received an award from Tunku Abdul Rahman Foundation as the best UNIMAS graduate for the year 2001.  Soon after that, he was recruited as a tutor in the Faculty of Resource Science and Technology, UNIMAS in 2002. He furthered his PhD in University of Bath, UK in 2003 and was awarded with Doctor of Philosophy in 2008. His field of specialization is molecular and developmental genetics.
  	MR. BADIOZAMAN SULAIMAN  BSc with Hons (Zoology), UKM (Malaysia), MSc (Molecular Biology) USM (Malaysia). He studied the role of bioactive fatty acid such as arachidonic acid (ARA), eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and decosahexsaenoic acid (DHA) on the reproductive performance of teleost (zebrafish) during his MSc period. He is now focusing on the biology of freshwater fish from western Borneo and spent most of his free time to build a pictorial database for the fauna of Borneo. In UNIMAS, he taught 6 undergraduate courses including animal physiology for the past three years.

  
  
  

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    Unit 1: Introduction to Animal Physiology

    Unit 2: Digestive Physiology

    Unit 3: Excretion

    Unit 4: Osmoregulation

    Unit 5: Thermoregulation

    Unit 6: Reproduction & Breeding

    Unit 7: Respiratory System

    Unit 8: Circulatory System

    Unit 9: Endocrine System

    Unit 10: Nervous System

    Unit 11: Muscles