ECTS
ECTS Course Catalogue
Course details
Course code: VVSS00157f12Semester: 2012/2013 summer
Name: Physiology of fish
Major: Veterinary Medicine
Study Type: one cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 8
ECTS points: 1
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 7 / 8 / 0
Lecturer: Prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Romański
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: Knowledge: Student knows the structure, describes the functions of subsequent systems of animal organism (respiratory, digestive, circulatory, urinary, nervous, motor, reproductory, hormonal, immunological, and integument) Practical skills: -exhibits the ability of listening and answering with the language that is comprehensible and adequate to situation
Competences: Student exhibits the fashion of continual broadening of knowledge and developing skills
Prerequisites: Animal Anatomy, Biochemistry, Animal Histology and Embryology, Animal Physiology (not necessarily)
Course content: Water environment, fish integument and motion dynamics, taxonomy and fish species, cirulation and respiration in fishes, digestive, urinary, and reproductory systems in fishes with their detailed functions, metabolism and neurohumoral control of the individual organ functions, shortened breeding aspects.
Recommended literature: 1. Ed.: D. H. Evans. The Physiology of Fishes. CRC Press, Boca Raton 1998.
Assessment methods: Oral exam
Comment: This subject will be led for the group of 18 students