3519.12 - Invertebrate Zoology

3519.12

Invertebrate Zoology

7.5

For single course students, upper secondary school is required.

To provide the students with a basic understanding of the diversity of invertebrates and give them knowledge of how invertebrates, based on structural and functional characteristics, are classified using cladistic phylogeny. This include ontogeny, morphology and nomenclature in a phylogenetic context.

All the 35 phyla in Animalia are covered, except the vertebrates in the phylum Chordata. Additionally, Protista (a part of Protozoa) is included. The different phyla are grouped into higher phylogenetic groupes: Diploblasta, which are the fundamental phyla and Triploblasta, covering Deuterostoma and Protostoma. The Protostomes are divided into two main groups: Ecdysozoa og Lophotrochozoa.

Lectures and laboratory exercises where animals from the different groups are dissected and named.

The students should after the course be able to: • Identify significant morphological traits of animals. • Use zoological terms and concepts. • Explain general principles of biological classification and nomenclature. • Describe characteristics of major animals groups and their classification. • Locate and describe significant morphological traits in selected groups of organisms by dissections and reasonable use of light and stereo microscope. • Describe and explain different functional adaption to operational environment condition. • Describe the life cycles of selected groups of organisms. • Combine observations with the theory acquired on the course. • Give examples of how zoological knowledge can be used in other disciplines as well as in the society.

Four-hour written examination. No auxiliary material, but the university computers are available for writing. The existing grade scale will be used.

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