FUNDAMENTALS OF ZOOLOGY
Module INVERTEBRATES
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher:
OSCAR PAOLO VINCENZO LISI
Expected Learning Outcomes
Ability to critically recognize the main groups of invertebrates; knowledge of their characteristics and understanding of the evolutionary mechanisms that have led to the diversification of the main invertebrate taxa.
Course Structure
Traditional frontal teaching and exercises
Required Prerequisites
Knowledge acquired during the courses of the first year disciplines.
Attendance of Lessons
Mandatory
Detailed Course Content
The diversity of living beings; adaptations; systematics and systematic categories; analogy and homology; phylogenesis; hints of embryology and body architecture. Notes on Protists; origin of multicellularity and first multicellular; characteristics, classification, origin and relationships (between them) of the main phyla of invertebrates: Porifers, Cnidarians, Ctenophores, Acelomorphs, Platelminths, Nemertes, Rotifers, Nematodes, Foronids, Bryozoa, Brachiopods, Molluscs, Anellids, Onychophores, Tardigrades, Arthropods, Echinoderms. The main parasites of man, the possible groupings above the phylum among the Metazoi, as well as the main phylogenetic theories are also focused.
Textbook Information
Teaching material
The teaching material is shared with students during and after the course via links on ONeDrive and also via WhatsApp
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Oral exam with recognition of dry or liquid preparations; students are also required to have the ability to draw some simple diagrams and main sections of animals, regularly illustrated during the course of lessons. If, according to current regulations, the exam were carried out remotely, the recognition of preparations and the making of drawings will be replaced by the recognition of images of animals and images of diagrams taken from the slides of the lessons.
After the end of the lessons of the Invertebrate module, at the student's request, it is possible to take an interview to verify the acquisition of the contents of the module.
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
See final questions indicated in each set of topics (lecture slides), and pdf file "0 important topics" provided to students.
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