Course description
Would you love for your career to be one where you work with animals every day? This Zoology Level 3 course can help you get started with that. During the course, you will explore the historical development of cellular understanding, the hierarchy of animal complexity and body shape, skeletal systems in the natural world, and much more. This course will allow you to study when and where you want, at your own pace. All coursework can be submitted by email making it simple and hassle-free. All of the materials will be delivered to you by post or via email, so it couldn’t be easier. Our experienced and friendly tutors are always a click away by email, giving you advice and helping you through your course. Join over [past_students_count] people that have studied with us and enrol with us today. Home learning couldn’t be easier! It is ideal for:
- Those who want to broaden their knowledge on zoology.
- Those who want to pursue a career in the animal industry.
Course Content
Unit 1 Organisms (an introduction to the living world)
- Life’s origins both chemically and biologically
- Historical development of cellular understanding
- Function of cells
- Metabolic process of the cell
Unit 2 Evolution, reproduction and maintenance of species
- Inheritance diagrams
- Genetic inheritance
- Mendel’s theories of inheritance
- Historical evolutionary theories
- Darwinian evolutionary theory
- Reproductive strategies
Unit 3 Taxonomy and simple organisms
- Hierarchy of animal complexity and body shape
- Classifying organisms
- Simple unicellular organisms
- Advantages and disadvantages of unicellular and simple multicellular organisms
Unit 4 Complex invertebrates
- Mollusca group
- Members of the annelid
- Hexapod groups
- Species of crustacea
- Echinoderm group
Unit 5 Complex vertebrates
- Biology of fishes
- Reptiles and amphibians
- Requirements for a species to be classified as a bird
- Mammal group
Unit 6 Maintaining life in the animal kingdom
- Skeletal systems in the natural world
- Animal’s internal environment
- Methods of digestion and nutrition in organisms
- Nervous system and its role
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