Introduction to Zoology
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Course code
MLB6006.LT
old course code
MLB6006
Course title in Estonian
Zooloogia
Course title in English
Introduction to Zoology
ECTS credits
6.0
Assessment form
Examination
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester
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Course aims
Obligatory course for marine biologist and science teachers. The course will present the diversity of the animal kingdom. All animal phyla will be introduced. The morphology and taxonomy of the most important and largest groups will be studied in greater depth.
Brief description of the course
General zoology: different fields of zoology, taxonomy, classification. The progress of animal evolution. Some protist groups, traditionally dealt as animals. All animal phyla will be introduced. Sponges, coelenterates, flatworms, roundworms, annelids, molluscs, arthropods, echinodermates and chordates will be studied in greater depth. The major classes of arthropods and chordates will also be studied in depth: arachnids, crustaceans, insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- knows the boundaries of animal diversity and orientates in animal taxonomy;
- knows the basic characteristics of animal phyla;
- can describe and recognise body plans of widely distributed animal groups.


Teacher
lekt Triinu Tõrv, MSc
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