Zoology

Unit: general zoology
Structure and functions of animals: body architecture; protection, support and movement; temperature and body fluid regulation; nervous and sensory system, nutrition and digestion; reproduction.
Adaptations of animals to different environmental factors.
Interactions among organisms: competition, predation, parasitism, symbiosis.
Principles of zoological nomenclature, criteria of classification and the identification of the organisms.

Unit: systematic zoology
Introduction to animal systematic.
Description of the principal morphological characters of the Classes, with attention to characters useful to formulate a classification at the level of subclasses and only for Insect and vertebrates at level of Order.
Protozoa: origin, form and function, reproduction and life cycle.
Introduction to Metazoa: origin of complexity, body size, transport and metabolism. Systematic of Porifera, ground plan and water pumping system.
Intoduction to Protostomia
Diploblastic animals: The Cnidarians, symmetry and systematic.
Introduction to triploblastic bilaterians origin, cephalisation, musculature, movement, , targeting resources, physiological specialization.
Lophotrochozoa:
Systematic of Platyhelminthes: Turbellaria and Neodermata. Regeneration, life cycle and parasitism.
Systematic of Rotifera Acanthocephala and Nemertea .
Ground plan of Mollusca: mantel, shell, mantel cavity, foot and coelom.
Systematic of Gastropoda, Cephalopoda, Bivalvia , Scaphopoda.
Ground plan of Annelida: Segmentation, musculature and locomotion. Systematic of Polichaeta and, Clitellata.
Ground plan of Lophophorata, Systematic of Bryozoa and Brachiopoda
Ecdisozoa:
Ground plan and systematic of Nematoda and Nematomorpha.
Ground plan of Arthopoda: origin, exoskeleton, functional morphology, sense organs, excretion, gas exchanges.
Systematic of Chelicerata , Crustacea, Myriapoda, Hexapoda, principal Orders of Insects.
Introduction to Deuterostomia. Ground plan of Echinodermata: water-vascular system, symmetry,. Systematic of Echinodermata.
Ground plan of Chordata, notochord, skeleton, musculature, pharynx, sense organs.
Sistematic of Tunicata and Cephalochordata.
Ground plan and systematic of vertebrates.