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BB525: Zoology and evolution (10 ECTS)

STADS: 04017101

Level
Bachelor course

Teaching period
The course begins in the autumn semester and continues in the spring semester.

Teacher responsible
Email: jcd@biology.sdu.dk

Additional teachers
lasse@biology.sdu.dk
onl@biology.sdu.dk

Timetable
Group Type Day Time Classroom Weeks Comment
Common I Monday 08-09 U140 36
Common I Tuesday 10-12 U23 37,39
Common I Tuesday 10-11 U23 40-41,46,49
Common I Tuesday 08-09 U23 43
Common I Tuesday 08-09 U133 44-45
Common I Tuesday 08-09 U20 47
Common I Tuesday 08-09 U46 48,50
Common I Tuesday 09-10 U46 51
Common I Thursday 08-09 U20 38-39
Common I Friday 10-12 U140 37
Common I Friday 08-10 U46 38
H4 TE Monday 08-09 *Odense Lokalitet aftales 10 38 SF H4 BB525
H4 TE Monday 11-12 *Odense Lokalitet aftales 10 40 SF H4 BB525
H4 TE Monday 10-11 *Odense Lokalitet aftales 10 47 SF H4 BB525
H4 TE Monday 09-10 *Odense Lokalitet aftales 10 49 SF H4 BB525
H4 TE Wednesday 14-16 U40 37,41
H4 TE Wednesday 08-09 *Odense Lokalitet aftales 10 43 SF H4 BB525
H4 TE Wednesday 08-10 U40 51
H4 TE Thursday 12-15 *Odense Lokalitet aftales 12 36
H4 TE Thursday 12-15 U40 38
H4 TE Thursday 12-16 *Odense Lokalitet aftales 12 39
H4 TE Thursday 08-10 U40 40,43-50
H4 TE Thursday 12-13 *Odense Lokalitet aftales 10 45 SF H4 BB525
H4 TE Friday 08-10 U40 39
H5 TE Tuesday 08-09 *Odense Lokalitet aftales 14 38,40,49 SF H5 BB525
H5 TE Tuesday 10-11 *Odense Lokalitet aftales 14 43,47 SF H5 BB525
H5 TE Wednesday 10-12 U40 37,39,41,43,51
H5 TE Wednesday 10-11 *Odense Lokalitet aftales 14 45 SF H5 BB525
H5 TE Thursday 09-12 U40 38
H5 TE Thursday 14-16 U40 40,49
H5 TE Thursday 10-12 U40 48,50
H5 TE Friday 09-12 *Odense Lokalitet aftales 12 36
H5 TE Friday 08-12 *Odense Lokalitet aftales 12 39
H5 TE Friday 14-16 U40 44-47
H6 TE Tuesday 16-18 U40 43
H6 TE Wednesday 14-16 U40 39
H6 TE Wednesday 12-14 U40 51
H6 TE Thursday 12-15 *Odense Lokalitet aftales 12 36
H6 TE Thursday 09-10 *Odense Lokalitet aftales 7 38 SF H6 BB525
H6 TE Thursday 15-18 U40 38
H6 TE Thursday 12-16 *Odense Lokalitet aftales 12 39
H6 TE Thursday 08-09 *Odense Lokalitet aftales 7 40,43 SF H6 BB525
H6 TE Thursday 10-12 U40 40,49
H6 TE Thursday 10-11 *Odense Lokalitet aftales 7 45,47 SF H6 BB525
H6 TE Thursday 13-15 U40 48
H6 TE Thursday 12-13 *Odense Lokalitet aftales 7 49 SF H6 BB525
H6 TE Thursday 12-14 U40 50
H6 TE Friday 09-12 *Odense Lokalitet aftales 12 36
H6 TE Friday 12-14 U40 37,41,44-47
H6 TE Friday 08-12 *Odense Lokalitet aftales 12 39
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Prerequisites:
None.

Academic preconditions:
None

Course introduction
The aim of the course is: 
  1. to enable the student to have an overview of the history of life and the body plans and diversity of animals,
  2. to enable the student to understand the principles of taxonomy and classification of the animal kingdom based on embryology, morphology and anatomy including molecular taxonomy (DNA sequencing)
  3. to understand how and why animals adapt to the environment which is important in regard to all further courses in the biology curriculum
The course gives an academic basis for studying the topics in ecology, physiology, population biology and ecotoxicology (among others), which are part of the degree.
In relation to the competence profile of the degree it is the explicit focus of the course to:
  • Give competences in professional collaborations and structuring own learning
  • Give skills in experimental investigations, scientific evaluation of biological theories, and evaluating and solving problems in biological science
  • Give knowledge and reflection on the theory of biological science, experimental methods and laboratory safety, current research topics and their application to biology


Expected learning outcome
The learning objectives of the course is that the student demonstrates the ability to:
  • Classify animals according to current taxonomy
  • Examine animal structure through dissection
  • Describe defining characters for the main divisions of the animal kingdom
  • Describe how life is formed by evolutionary principles
  • Identify morphological and anatomical structures and histology and understand the importance of morphological characters in relation to function and adaptation to environment
  • Use field keys to classify select animals to species and to state how systematical taxonomy is performed in praxis
  • Know the main elements of the history of life, the body plans of phyla and the importance of metazoan embryology for taxonomy, and the phylogenetic system of metazoans (invertebrates and chordates)


Subject overview
The following main topics are contained in the course:
  • The history of Life, from the origin of Earth to the emergence of the recent phyla and the evolutionary principles that has shaped life
  • Animal phylogeny and taxonomy
  • Systematics and evolution of main animal groups, their anatomy, morphology, histology, embryology, life cycle, physiology and ecology
  • Taxonomic methodology: practical classification of select organism to the level of genera or species
  • The history and theory of Zoological science.


Literature
  • Lærebog: Hickman et al. (2014): Integrated Principles of Zoology, 16th ed. McGraw-Hill.
  • Håndbog: Jespersen & Lützen (2012): Zoologisk Morfologi, Gyldendal.


Website
This course uses e-learn (blackboard).

Prerequisites for participating in the exam
None

Assessment and marking:
  1. Written exam without exam aids, 2 hours. The exam takes place in January. Evaluated by the Danish 7-mark scale, external marking. (3 ECTS)
  2. Written exam without exam aids, 2 hours. The exam takes place in June. Evaluated by the Danish 7-mark scale, external marking. (3 ECTS)
  3. Mandatory weekly e-tests. Evaluated in June on a pass/fail basis, internal marking by teacher. (1 ECTS)
  4. Mandatory laboratory work (participation). The exam takes place in June. Evaluated on a pass/fail basis, internal marking by teacher. (1 ECTS)
  5. Mandatory weekly e-tests. Evaluated in January on a pass/fail basis, internal marking by teacher. (1 ECTS)
  6. Mandatory laboratory work (participation). The exam takes place in January. Evaluated on a pass/fail basis, internal marking by teacher. (1 ECTS)
Expected working hours
The teaching method is based on three phase model.
Intro phase: 30 hours
Skills training phase: 64 hours, hereof:
 - Laboratory exercises: 48 hours
 - Excursion: 16 ekskursion hours

Educational activities Study phase: 10 hours

Questions for group discussionsEducational form
The weekly lectures give an overview of the animal group of that week. Specimens of that group are investigated by the students in practicals aimed at giving practical skills in dissection, identification of structures and classification. In the study phase meetings the students discuss and teach each other the important features of the animal group of the week.

Language
This course is taught in Danish.

Course enrollment
See deadline of enrolment.

Tuition fees for single courses
See fees for single courses.