Content (Syllabus outline)

Basic characteristics of animals;

fundamental evoultionary principles; evolution and animal biodiversity; animal systematics; main organic systems in animals (integument, skeleton, musculary systems, nutrtion and digestion,gass exchange, circulatory system, osmoregulation and excretion, sense organs, nervous system, endocrine and reproductive systems); reproduction and heredity; ontogenetic development; basic principles in ecology

Practical work is related to lectures and based on observations of morphology and anatomy of basic animal groups and reproductive and developmental startegies in invertebrates.

Prerequisites

Prerequisites for inclusion in the work:

enrolment in the appropriate academic year