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FACULTY OF LETTERS & SCIENCE / MBG 110 - MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS

Code: MBG 110 Course Title: ANIMAL BIOLOGY Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 4
Year/Semester of Study 1 / Spring Semester
Level of Course 1st Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Compulsory
Department MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer ÖZLEM FINDIK (ofindik@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
Teaching the general features of the invertebrate animal kingdoms and their systematics

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 Student, learn rules of biologic nomenclature and taxonomy PO-1 Obtain basic knowledge of Biology
PO-4 Define the relationship among life forms and their environments and ecosystems
PO-9 Find out new methods to improve his/her knowledge
PO-11 Apply biological concepts to personal, social, economical, technological and ethical issues
Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Animal morphology, taxonomy, ecology
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Principles of Systematics, species concepts, Status of the living world animals Anlatma Yöntemi
2 Protista: Bir Hücreli Hayvanlar, Mesozoa, Parazoa: Porifera, Eumetazoa: Radial Simetrili Hayvanlar: Coelenterata, Ctenophora
3 Bilateral Simetrili Hayvanlar: Acoelomata: Platyhelminthes, Nemertini, Pseudocoelomata: Aschelminthes: Nematoda, Rotifera, Gastrotricha, Kinorhyncha, Nematomorpha, Acanthocephala, Gnathostomulida Eucoelomata: Annelida, Pogonophora
4 Mollusca, Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Cephalopoda
5 Arthropoda
6 Echinodermata Arthropoda: Crustaceae
7 Echinodermata
8 mid-term exam
9 Kordalılara giriş. Genel karakterleri. Kordalıların sınıflandırılması, Aşağı kordalılar. Genel karakterleri. Sınıflandırması. Omurgalılar: omurgalıların genel karakterleri. Omurgalıların sınıflandırılması.
10 Üst Klasis: Pisces: Klasis Agnatha, Klasis Placodermi, Klasis Chondrichthyes: genel karakterleri ve sınıflandırılması
11 Osteichthyes
12 Sudan karaya geçiş. Üst Klasis Tetrapoda: genel karakterleri ve sınıflandırılması. Klasis Amphibia: genel karakterleri ve sınıflandırılması.
13 Klasis Reptilia: Ordo Testudinata:
14 Squamata: Ordo Crocodilia;Aves
15 Mammalia
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
Required Course instruments and materials
lecture Note

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 2 40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 14 2 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 3 14 42
Outside Class
       a) Reading 2 14 28
       b) Search in internet/Library 1 14 14
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 0
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 2 8 16
mid-term exam 2 1 2
Own study for final exam 2 8 16
final exam 2 1 2
0
0
Total work load; 120