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Course code: BŻS10003o15Semester: 2015/2016 winter
Name: Zoology
Major: Food Safety
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 1
ECTS points: 6
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: dr hab. Joanna Mąkol, prof. nadzw.
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: Knowledge: Student knows the backgrounds of systematics and classification of selected groups of Protista and of invertebrate animals, origin of Metazoa and phylogenetic relationships between the major animal taxa; describes the external and internal morphology and life functions of organisms; understands the increasing complexity of animal structure, resulting from the sequence of evolutionary events; knows the regulations concerning the protection of animals in Poland; knows the methods of collecting, preservation and labeling of invertebrates; describes the taxa of economic importance; knows the principles of fornsic acaro-entomology. Skills: Student operates the light– and stereomicroscopes; safely deals with the preserved material (invertebrate animals); carries out, under close supervision and direction, basic research tasks; identifies the representatives of particular classes of animals and – in case of native fauna – the representatives of orders (or lower taxonomic categories, as far as protected taxa and taxa of economic importance are concerned); can select the adequate study techniques (methods of collecting, preservation, dissection, observation and identification) applied in relation to various groups of organisms; is able to analyze the potential threat and to indicate critical check-points at each phase of food processing; applies the methods of analysis and evaluation of raw materials, animal products and fodder s able to estimate the condition of agricultural environment as well as of animals in terms related to food safety.
Competences: Student is aware of the collective responsibility for fulfilling the tasks assigned to the team; is responsible for the equipment he/she was entrusted with.
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Course content: Course contents: General characteristics of unicellular organisms (Protista) and of animals (Animalia), origin of animals, living environment; basics of classification, systematics and phylogeny; structure and functions of heterotrophic organisms; life cycles; ontogeny and phylogeny; origin of major groups of Metazoa; systematic review; pests and parasites; invertebrates applied in biological control and in food industry; methods applied in the forensic entomology and acarology; methods of collecting of animals; review of the Polish fauna, regulations concerning the animal protection in Poland.
Recommended literature: basic: 1.Błaszak Cz. (red.): Zoologia t. 2. Stawonogi. PWN, Warszawa, 2011; 2.Błaszak Cz. (red.): Zoologia t. 1. Bezkręgowce. PWN, Warszawa, 2009; 3.Rajski A.: Zoologia. T. I i II. PWN, Warszawa, 1998; 4.Czapik A.: Podstawy protozoologii. PWN, Warszawa, 1992; 5.Deryło A. (red.): Parazytologia i akaroentomologia medyczna. PWN, Warszawa, 2002; supplementary: 1. Futuyma D.J.: Ewolucja. Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2005.
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