Certificate of Human Biology – Bioenergetics

1. Energy and Work
   • Anaerobic energy supply
   • Phosphate energy
   • Lactic acid energy
   • Adenosine triphosphate
   • Aerobic energy supply
   • Energy requirements for different types of activity
   • Breathing during exercise
   • ATP movement
   • ATP sources
   • ATP-PC system
   • Lactic acid system
   • Oxygen system
   • Aerobic systems
   • Krebs cycle
2. Energy Pathways
   • What is energy
   • The nature of energy
   • Units of measurement
   • Production and storage of energy
   • Carbohydrates in an animal or human body
   • Gycogenesis
   • Glycogenolysis
   • Gluconeogenesis
   • Hyperglycaemia
   • Carbohydrate oxidation
   • Glycolysis
   • Hydrolysis
   • Hydrolysis of metal salts
   • Hydrolysis of an ester link
   • Energy production pathways from different foods: fats, carbohydrates, proteins
   • Respiratory quotient
   • Resting quotient Aerobic capacity
   • What happens during exercise
   • Recovery from exercise: Alactacid and lactacid oxygen debt, Replenishing muscular glycogen
   • Lactic acid
   • Calculations
3. The Acid-Base Balance
   • pH
   • What is acidity
   • The urinary system: Kidneys, ureters, bladder
   • Physiology of the Urinary system
   • The urea cycle
4. Osmosis and Diffusion
   • Diffusion explained and examples given
   • Nature and types of diffusion
   • Movement of molecules through cell membranes
   • Endocytosis
   • Membranes and their structure
   • Osmosis
   • Osmosis and filtration
   • Membrane transport: simple passive, active and facilitated transport
   • Chemical potential
   • Osmotic pressure
   • Reverse osmosis
5. Atmospheric Pressure
   • Altitudes
   • Introduction to atmospheric pressure
   • Partial pressure gradients
   • Effects of change in pressure
   • Equalising when diving
   • Gas solubility
   • Breathing at different atmospheric pressures
   • Calculations
6. Temperature Regulation
   • Introduction
   • Affect of temperature changes on the human body
   • Conduction and convection
   • Lowering temperature: sweating, vasodilation, metabolic reduction, hair, behaviour
   • Raising temperature
   • Vasoconstriction
   • Increased metabolism
   • Behaviour
   • Effect of temperature on enzymes
   • Ecrine glands
   • Apocrine glands
   • Energy production
   • Factors affecting individual BMR: growth, body size, food, thyroid gland
   • Fever: mechanism of fever, shivering, other temperature disorders
   • Grades of fever
   • Signs of fever
7. Ergogenic Aids to Performance
   • Introduction
   • Drugs: steroids, amphetamines
   • Oxygen
   • Vitamins
   • Water
   • Other foods: carbohydrates, protein
   • Creatine
   • Caffeine

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