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MURDOCH-S2-INT-2018-ONGOING

Enrolment rules

Students who have successfully completed BIO261/BIO244 Animal Diversity may not enrol in this unit for credit.
BIO103 Introduction to Environmental Biology/Environmental Biology or BIO180 Introduction to Marine Biology

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Learning outcomes

1.
Recognise and identify the phyla of animals and classes within phyla based on their morphology
2.
List the major evolutionary developments that have occurred in the animal kingdom and explain their significance
3.
Explain how evolutionary processes have given rise to the diversity of animal life that exists today and has existed in the Earth's past
4.
Describe the body plans (e.g. acoelomate, pseudocoelomate, protostome, deuterostome) and life histories (i.e. how they feed, move, reproduce etc.) of the major groups of animals

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