Biology | University of Parma

Professor
Academic discipline: Zoologia (BIO/05)
Field: Ambito aggregato per crediti di sede
Type of training activity: Base

48 hours
of face-to-face activities

6 credits

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Course unit partition: ZOOLOGY

Learning objectives

The student will have to achieve the main instruments in order to describe animal structure and function and to know the main animal taxa

Prerequisites

Elementary concepts of Biology usually acquired in secondary school courses.

Course unit content

Basic notions about chemical composition of cell (lipids, carbohydrates, proteins, nucleic acids) - Subcellular structures and their functions: membranes, nucleus, mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum, vacuoles - Differentiated animal cells, tissues, organs (basic notions) - Cell cycles and animal cell division - Cell death (necrosis and apoptosis) - Meiosis - Protozoa, morpologies and life cicles - Spermatogenesis and oogenesis - Chromosomes - Sex determination and sexual dimorphism - Sexual and asexual reproduction - Embrionic development (basic notions) - Level of organization, morphology, habitat, feeding, respiration, excretion, osmotic regulation of the main invertebrate and vertebrate groups- Basic of mammalian evolution - Basic concept of Ethology

Full programme

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Bibliography

-HICKMAN et al.- Fondamenti di Zoologia, ed. McGraw-Hill(2005).
-Campbell & Reece - Biologia- Pearson, Paravia, B.Mondadori ed. 
-DORIT et al. - Zoologia, ed. Zanichelli. 
-MITCHELL et al. - Zoologia, ed. Zanichelli. 
-ARGANO et Al.- Zoologia Evoluzione e Adattamento, ed. Monduzzi

Teaching methods

frontal lessons

Assessment methods and criteria

oral test

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