BISC 101- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 81 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Dealing with lack of oxygen when living the high and low life! Deeply hypoxic situation, air-breathing vertebrates can"t access o2 underwater. Water contains 40 x less o2 than air. 12,000 feet- each breath delivers only 60% of the oxygen at sea level. 30,000 feet death zone- amount of oxygen is insufficient to sustain human life. Using automated time depth recorders to record diving behaviour at sea. Lactic acid increases in blood of diving animals. What physiological adaptations would you expect to see at high altitude? increase rbc-hg. A common adaptation to life at high altitude. Low elevation relatives also have high affinity for hg. Insights into the mechanism of high altitude adaptation of deer mouse hemoglobin. Humans have colonised high altitude areas at least three times from low altitude ancestral po. Migration-using technology to track activity of wild animals over large distances. Long-distance migration: advantages of storing and burning fat.
