Zoology

Year
1
Academic year
2022-2023
Code
01000637
Subject Area
Biology
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
4.5
Type
Compulsory
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

Fluency in english is important since most of the bibliography is in english.

Teaching Methods

Although this course only includes lectures, active participation of students in group discussions is strongly motivated.

Learning Outcomes

This curricular unit aims the acquisition by the student of knowledge on vertebrate and vertebrate biology, with emphasis to the adaptive value of the main evolutionary novelties and to the integration of knowledge on form and function, at different levels of biological organization.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

  1. Biological classification and zoological nomenclature. Systematics and Phylogeny.

  2. Protozoa.

  3. Metazoan evolution. Porifera and Placozoa.

  4. Cnidaria and Ctenophora.

  5. Animals with bilateral symmetry. Symmetry and movement. Compartments.

  6. Regeneration. Platyhelminthes.

  7. Nematoda, and Rotifera Nematomorpha.

  8. Mollusca.

  9. Segmentation. Celomados animals and acelomados. Annelida.

10. Fossils and evolutionary origins of major groups of Metazoa. Arthropoda.

11. Echinodermata.

12. Essential concepts in the evolution of vertebrates.

13. Origin and characteristics of the chordates and vertebrates.

14. Agnatha.

15. Evolution jaw and paired fins. Gnathostomata. Placodermi, Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes.

16. Amphibia.

17. Amniota. Synapsida and Sauropsida. Reptilia.

18. Aves.

19. Milk, facial muscles, secondary palate and placenta. Mammalia. Continental drift and biogeography of monotremes, marsupials and placentals.

Head Lecturer(s)

João Carlos de Sousa Marques

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Project: 20.0%
Resolution Problems: 20.0%
Exam: 30.0%
Mini Tests: 30.0%

Bibliography

Hickman Jr., C.P., L.S. Roberts, A. Larson, H. I’Anson & D.J. Eisenhour (2006). Integrated Principles of Zoology. McGraw-Hill, New York, U.S.A.

 

Pough, F.H, C.M. Janis & J.B. Heiser (2005) Vertebrate Life. Macmillan, New York,

USA.

 

Rupert, E.E., R.S. Fox & R.D. Barnes (2003). Invertebrate Zoology-a functional evolutionary approach. Saunders College Publishing, Forth Worth, U.S.A.

 

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