BIOA02H3 Lecture 13: lecture 13

• School: UTSC
• Department: Biological Sciences
• Course: BIOA02H3
• Professor: Ivana Stehlik

Document Summary

Medical/clinical physiology looking at mechanisms relating to diseases to find a cure or understand the mechanisms where cures can be later developed. Done in hospitals, medical departments, biology departments, rodent experimental models (rats + mices) Comparative/animal physiology interested in how a particular mechanism work. Different animals and mechanisms + groupings of animals. August krogh principle for every question in biology there is an ideal model system! E. g. you want to study hibernation mechanisms ! 1) mechanist physiology interested in physiological mechanisms. How things work? different mechanisms that allow a particular system to function. A little outdated taken by molecular biology. Evolution between animals anatomical features, comparing biological trees. How a particular physiological trait/feature allow to survive and thrive in a particular environment important in climate change, global features. E. g. fish that thrives in the arctic. Not a term that should be thrown around loosely.