ANATOMIA PER LE BIOTECNOLOGIE-modulo B

Degree course: 
Corso di First cycle degree in BIOTECHNOLOGY
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2019/2020
Year: 
2
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2020/2021
Course type: 
Supplementary compulsory subjects
Credits: 
2
Period: 
Second semester
Standard lectures hours: 
16
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Lesson (16 hours)
Assessment: 
Voto Finale

Overview of the Phylum of Cordata and on the classification of Vertebrata.
Overview of comparative embryology.
Integument.
Skeletal and muscular system.
Circulatory system.
Respiratory system.
Digestive system
Urogenital system.
Nervous system.

"Anatomia comparata" a cura di Vincenzo Stingo Edizioni EDI.ERMES
"Principi di anatomia umana" di Marco Artico et al., Edizioni EDI.ERMES

The course consists in 48 hours of lectures with the help of PowerPoint presentations. The two teachers participating in the course teaching, one, human anatomy for 4 CFU and the other, comparative anatomy for 2 CFU, will coordinate in such a way that all the treated topics are from both points of view, that of human anatomy and that of comparative anatomy, which also allows a fuller understanding of the human anatomy. With the analysis of the similarities and the anatomical-functional differences, indeed, comparative anatomy is able to unveil the laws that regulate the organization of an organism and to reconstruct its evolutionary history. This interdisciplinary vision finds, as a unifying moment, the theory of biological evolution since, citing Theodosius Dobzhansky, "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution."