Science - Course - Biodiversity and Pollution

Air and atmospheric pollution; water, land and soil pollution; environmental factors affecting biodiversity; impact of loss of biodiversity; principles of environmental toxicology; hazard assessment; carcinogen risk assessment. Laboratory Topics: animal handling and tissue collection, routes of toxicants administration, markers of exposure to environmental toxicants; mechanisms of acute toxicity: hypoxia, mechanisms of metabolic (endogenous) toxicity, analysis of volatile toxic agents, analysis of non-volatile toxic agents.