Animal structures and functions (Organ systems: Nutrition, Respiration, Circulatory systems, Excretion, Support and Movement, Sensitivity, Nervous and Hormonal coordination). Reproduction and evolution (sexual and asexual Reproduction, Embryogenesis, Postembryonic development, development of evolutionary theory). The animal kingdom (taxonomy and systematic; animal nomenclature e classification; general characteristics of major Phyla; insect and vertebrate species of Sardinian forests).