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Welcome to PDAP! Welcome to Physiological Dynamics in Animals and Plants, Biology 244. Both animals and plants face similar environmental challenges to their birth, growth, survival, and reproduction. Over time, both have evolved physiological adaptations that enable them to meet those challenges. At first glance it might appear that those adaptations are quite different between animals and plants, but because they are encoded in DNA, many of them are conserved between these two kingdoms at the cellular level. In this course we will review some of the major physiological adaptations of animals and plants, emphasizing similarities between their adaptations, the diversity of adaptations used, and the similarities between the cellular physiology that underlies each adaptation in animals or plants.   The following will be major themes of the course: Fundamentals of body design and function in higher plants and animals Movement Internal transport and gas exchange Energy transduction Nutrition and food processing Communication among cells through chemical and electrical signaling The course meets: 10:20 a.m.-11:20 p.m. MWF in CLN201. The lab meets 1:50-4:50 p.m. W or 1:00-4:00 p.m. Th in Olin 101 or Olin 104.