FOOD PRODUCTS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN
cod. 1003904

Academic year 2013/14
2° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Anatomia degli animali domestici (VET/01)
Field
Discipline della sicurezza e della valutazione degli alimenti
Type of training activity
Characterising
42 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
hub:
course unit
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Learning objectives

The student must to acquire adeguate knowledges of Cytology, general Embryology and Anatomy o domestic Animals and Fishes;
The student must to acquire good knowledges of muscles organization and their transformation in meat, of organs that produce milk ahd eggs.
The student must to acquire good knowledges of Fishes, Gasteropoda, Clam, Cephalopoda and Crustacea.
The student must to acquire good knowledges of bovine and swine cut of meat anatomy with particular interest for their constituve and organoleptic characteristics

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

During rhe first part of course the following concepts are given: Cytology, general Embryology, Histology, with particular interest for the muscular tissue. In the second part of course the following concepts are given: Mammalia Anatomy, with particular interest for: myology, breast, digestive and uro-genital system.
In the third part of course the following concepts are given: cut of meat anatomy, Anatomy and identificatione of Fishes, Gasteropoda, Clam, Cephalopoda and Crustacea.

Full programme

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Bibliography

Bortolami R., Callegari E. Clavenzani P. Beghelli V.
Anatomia e Fisiologia degli Animali Domestici
Edagricole, Bologna. 2009

Teaching methods

The course is principally organized in theoretical lessons, even if flesh laboratory visits are programmed.

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral exam. No intermdiate exam are programmed.
The student must knowledge the anatomical mechanisms that convert the musculature tissue in meat and the anatomical mechanisms that allow the production of milk and eggs
The student must recognize a bovine and swine cut of meat and identify a Fishes, Gasteropoda, Clam, Cephalopoda and Crustacea

Other information

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