Guia docente 2016_17 Facultade de Ciencias do Mar

Learning outcomes

Expected results from this subject	Training and Learning Results
PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1. To identify and understand key physiological processes in the development of photosynthetic marine organisms.	A1 A2 A3	C1	D11
2. To know the relationships among the photosynthetic marine organisms and the marine environment by means of the study of changing physiological processes	A1 A2 A3 A5	C6	D11
3. To handle equipments and techniques to study plant physiology.	A2 A3	C4 C5 C12	D2 D4 D5 D8 D11
4. To understand the scientific methodology and the technologies applied to plant physiology research.	A1 A3 A5	C1 C4 C5 C12	D4 D5 D8 D9 D11
5. To gain capacity of analysis and approaching to hypothesis in plant physiology.	A2 A3	C5 C6	D1 D2 D6 D9 D11 D13
ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY 6. To Know the basic mechanisms involved in cell excitability and in the generation of potentials of action and his implication in the nervous system function.	A3	C14	D11
7. To know the mechanisms of acquisition and integration of the sensory information in marine animals	A2 A3 A5	C1 C18	D1 D2 D8
8. To know the physiological bases of muscular activity and its implication in aquatic locomotion	A3	C1 C18	D11
9. To know in marine animals the mechanisms trough which synthesis, release, transport and the action of hormones synthesised by endocrine glands and the nervous system of marine animals occurr.	A2 A3	C1 C14 C18	D11
10. Knowing the corporal fluids and the functioning of cardiovascular systems.	A3	C3 C12 C17 C18	D6 D11
11. To know the mechanisms of gas exchange between the animals and the water where they live.	A3	C1	D1 D2 D6 D9 D11
12. To know the mechanisms for wastes elimination and of osmotic regulation in distinct groups of marine animals.	A3	C1	D6 D11
13. To know how animals obtain energy through food consumption, and how to use such energy as well.	A3 A5	C1	D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D8 D9 D11
15. To know the general and basic terminology in Animal Physiology.	A3	C1	D11
16. To know and to understand the generel functioning of different systems in animals addapted to different environmental conditions.	A2 A3	C1	D1 D5 D6 D8 D9 D11
17. To understand the general functioning of the animal as a whole, emphasizing in the role played by the integratory and coordinatory systems.	A2 A3	C1	D1 D5 D8 D11
18. To understand basic aphysiology-related aspects, such as aquaculture.	A2 A3 A5	C1 C5	D6 D11
PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 19. To know the relationships among the photosynthetic marine organisms and the abiotic and biotic marine environments, by means of the study of their adaptations and the physiological processes of acclimation (functional types, osmoregulation, fotoprotection, biomass partitioning).	A2 A3 A5	C1	D11