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2025-2026 Graduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Graduate Catalog

BIO 511 Animal Physiological Ecology


A lecture, laboratory and discussion course covering thermoregulation, metabolic rate, torpor, water flux, and specific adaptations for life in the cold, deserts, high altitude and great depths. Laboratory work emphasizes computerized data acquisition.

Often cross-listed with BIO 411 

Credit 4 hrs May not be repeated for additional credit
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation Winter (even yrs., in-person)

Prerequisites -
Restriction by Major - BIOG , EEOB , or MCBI 
Restriction by Degree Type - Graduate standing

Equivalent Course(s) - BIO 411, ZOOL 439
Course History -
Change to credit hour and major restriction 1/2018, effective Fall 2018; Course Rotation added 8/2014


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