Study Guide Summer 2009

SUBJECTS OF QUESTIONS THAT MAY BE ON THE FINAL

Questions based on the presentations of NIA

• Digestion and absorption
  1. Feeding mechanisms
  2. Mechanical and chemical digestion
• Metabolism
  1. Fig. 5.2 Uses of energy by an animal.
  2. Factors that affect metabolic rate

                                                    i.     BMR and SMR

                                                  ii.     Relation between metabolic rate and body size

• Ionic basis of membrane potentials

• Nernst equation
• Equilibrium potentials
• Reversal potentials
• Action potentials--how they are produced
  1. Factors that affect propagation of AP
  2. ion channels
• Chemical synapses
  1. Electrical synapses and chemical synapses (metabotropic and ionotropic)
  2. Synaptic potentials (EPSP, IPSP)
• Sensory systems
  1. Phasic and tonic signals
  2. auditory and vestibular anatomy and physiology
  3. transduction of taste and smell
• Organization of the central and peripheral nervous system
• Autonomic nervous system divisions and functions
• Skeletal muscle organization--contractile, regulatory, and structural proteins
• Muscle physiology
  a. Neuromuscular junction
  b. Excitation contraction coupling
• Isometric and isotonic contractions
• Summation and tetanus--what are they and their cellular physiology
• Load and velocity of shortening
• Motor units