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| BIY2000 | Vertebrate Biology | 3+0+0 | ECTS:5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Compulsory | | Department | DEPARTMENT of BIOLOGY | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Ufuk BÜLBÜL | | Co-Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Bilal KUTRUP | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The course aims to provide the students with a general knowledge on vertebrate animals living especially in turkey and all of the earth, to enable them to understand the anatomical structures, systematical position and how these animals living on their environmental areas, to help them use their knowledge to understand the animal life taking place on the earth, to teach them how to research about animals take over. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | evaluate the mechanism of evaluation of animals and be able to explain animals relation to the understand of life | 1,2 | 1, | | LO - 2 : | describe vertebrate animals living around in terms of anatomic and systematic | 1,2 | 1, | | LO - 3 : | apply various techniques in search of animal
capture vertebrate animals in nature.
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| 1,2 | 1, | | LO - 4 : | capture vertebrate animals in nature.
| 1,2 | 1, | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Protochortada Classification, general Characteristics of their body structures and their ecological functions. Cyclostomata General Characteristics of their body structures and their ecological functions. Chondricthyes Osteichthyes Information about fishes living in aquatic and sea water, economical fishes, inter species fishes . between fish and amphibians. Amphibia Reptilia Back ground about Herpetology which interest with frogs, toads, salamanders, lizards and snakes which are venomous or not. Aves and Mammalia How bird fly and detail structures of body, why bird migration and which bird migrate and their road of migrate in the world. What is the specific features of mammalian, which is separate theseanimals from the others. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | General knowledge about systematic and identification of animals
| | | Week 2 | Systematics, anatomic structures and ecological functions of Protchortada
| | | Week 3 | Systematics, anatomic structures and ecological functions of Cyclostomata
| | | Week 4 | Systematics, anatomic structures and ecological functions of Chondrihtyes
| | | Week 5 | Systematics, anatomic structures and ecological functions of Osteihtyes
| | | Week 6 | Systematics, anatomic structures and ecological functions of amphibians
| | | Week 7 | Systematics, anatomic structures and ecological functions of Testudinata
| | | Week 8 | Systematics, anatomic structures and ecological functions of Lizards anad snakes | | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 10 | Genarel characeristics of aves and systematics, anatomic structures and ecological functions of Spheniformes | | | Week 11 | Systematics, anatomic structures and ecological functions of the other aves
| | | Week 12 | Systematics, anatomic structures and ecological functions of Prototheria and Prototheria.
| | | Week 13 | Systematics, anatomic structures and ecological functions of Eutheria
| | | Week 14 | Systematics, anatomic structures and ecological functions of the similar Human being | | | Week 15 | Technical excursion
| | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Kuru, M., 1999; Omurgalı hayvanlar, Palme Yayıncılık, ANKARA | | | |
| 1 | Demirsoy, Ali. 2002.Yaşamın temel kuralları, Hacettepe Yayınları, Beytepe, ANKARA | | | 2 | Ders notları | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 14/04/2022 | 1 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 01/06/2022 | 1 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 3 | 13 | 39 | | Laboratuar çalışması | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 12 | 2 | 24 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Uygulama | 0 | 2 | 0 | | Klinik Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Ödev | 0 | 7 | 0 | | Proje | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Kısa sınav | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 14 | 3 | 42 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 2 | 2 | | Diğer 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Diğer 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Total work load | | | 150 |
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