Theory of zoocultures in veterinary and biological education

The article presents a brief retrospective of the experience of teaching the educational discipline "Zooculture" to students of the Veterinary and Biological Faculty of the Moscow Veterinary Academy (FSBEI V MGAVMiB - MBA named after K.I. Scriabin). This subject is extremely relevant in the system of higher veterinary and biological education, since it comprehensively examines the issues of animal cultivation in modern conditions of anthropogenic transformation of the environment. The theoretical basis of the course currently taught at the Faculty of Veterinary Biology is the work of scientists of the Academy Gabuzov O.S., Lebedev I.G., Alpatov V.V., Pimenov N.V., Lomskov M.A. The information of the educational discipline "Zooculture" contributes to the deepening of knowledge in the unified system of integrated veterinary and biological education and is consistent with classical and applied disciplines studied both before the beginning of the development of the considered educational course, and after. Also, in addition to analyzing the experience of teaching the discipline "Zooculture", the authors of the article indicate possible prospects for the development of the course under consideration, based primarily on modern genetic engineering methods of biotechnological science. Thus, "Zooculture", being an interdisciplinary educational course, combines theoretical knowledge of such biological disciplines as, for example, "Ecology and rational nature management", "Zoology", "General Biology" with relevant practical methods and skills of applied disciplines of veterinary and biological profile ("Fundamentals of Veterinary Medicine", "Genetics", "Model animals in biotechnology", "Applied immunology", etc.).