Animal Physiology 3. Digestion and metabolism
How animals obtain, process and absorb the nutrients needed to sustain their metabolic work.
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What you will learn
Understand the nature of metabolic fuels and their role in sustaining metabolism.
Understand how the oxidation of carboydrates differs from oxidation of lipids, and how they are similar.
Understand the unique metabolic challenges of using amino acids as fuels.
Understand the fundamentals of digestion, including how food is broken down into absorbable nutrients in the gut.
Understand how carbohydrates, amino acids and lipids are absorbed across the intestinal epithelium, and the mechanisms that power absorption.
Understand the optimization principles underlying gut design, and how these principles guide the adaptations of guts to varying food quality.
Understand how gut function is controlled by the network of neural and hormonal feedbacks within the gut.
Understand the higher level control of appetite, including how these integrate with gut level control mechanisms.
Understand the nature of the metabolic rate, including that it is fundamentally an energy consumption rate.
Understand the major sources of variation in metabolic rate among the animals, including body size and metabolic 'lifestyle.'
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