Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply the concept of homeostasis to explain how specific physiological systems are regulated in different animal systems.
2. Describe how environmental conditions lead to physiological responses, comparing mechanisms that come into play in short term, long term, and how the responses change over evolutionary time.
3. Describe how evolution has influenced the diversity in physiological systems.
4. Explain how muscles, nerves, and cell signaling form the basis of physiological systems.
5. Explain how physiological systems operate, integrating between biological levels of organization: from molecules to cells, tissues, and organisms.
6. Identify similarities and differences in how diverse animals use physiology to solve similar problems.