BIO270H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Albrecht Von Haller, Herman Boerhaave, Central Pattern Generator
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Definition: the study of the normal functioning of a living organism & its component parts, including all its chemical & physical processes. The study of how animals work knut schmidt-nielsen. Structure & function of various parts how these parts work together. function is going to be depends on what the structures are like. Unifying themes apply to all physiological processes. Based on: biological level of organization: atoms molecules cells tissues organs organ. Systems organisms populations communities ecosystems biosphere. Cell & molecular physiology: genetics, metabolism, organelles the physiology that they work with is more on the cellular level, how the functioning of all cells & the molecules will affect the function of the organism. Physiologists often study processes at more than one level: reductionism: understand a system by studying the function of its parts, emergence: the whole is more than the sum of its parts, process that cause physiological variation. Developmental physiology: change as the animal grows.
