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Course code: BBS20200f10Semester: 2010/2011 summer
Name: Analytical methods of skin pelt fur evaluation
Major: Biology
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 0
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 15 / 0
Lecturer: prof. dr hab. Bożena Patkowska-Sokoła
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: Student is able to match the animal to environment basing on description of features of skin and fur coat, and conversely, from the description of environment is able to conclude of features that should be characteristic for skin and fur coat of animal living there.
Competences: Obtained knowledge allows to locate animal in the environment with respect to quality of fur coat features and understand the interactions between the environment and animal. Student is prepared to an objective assessment of features of skin and fur coat of animals - together with marking of variety/species membership, and may decide of conditions of animal maintenance with respect to inborn features of fur coat quality. The knowledge of features of skins and fur coat is also of a practical meaning with the use of animal products in everyday life.
Prerequisites: Not required
Course content: Features of fur coat of animals differing with life environment (water, land, mixed) and also feeding base (plant protein, animal protein); typology of single hair (non-medullar, transitional, medullar, of constant growth, shedding) and coats (uniform, mixed, opened, closed, high, short), biological rhythms of production and exchange (shedding) of hair; assessment of histological features (proportions between tissue elements of skin, epidermis, hair follicles and hair), physical (thickness of dermis, diameter and length of hair,), functional (resistance on environmental factors, e.g. water, friction) and performance (felting) of different kinds of fur coat.
Recommended literature: Duda: Skóry futrzarskie. Wyd. AE Kraków 1993. W. Lutnicki: Układ powłokowy zwierząt domowych. PWN Kraków 1998. W. Kostarzecki: Choroby włosów. PZWL., Warszawa 1979 M. Zabel: Histologia. WM, Brema 1994.B. J. Teerink: Hair of west- European mammals-Atlas., CUP 1991.
Assessment methods: Completion of practical 50%; written exam 50%.
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