(the polychaete Hesione picta) |
Zool 250
(Sample lab exams; Diversity Quiz;
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(lemon slug from Madagascar) |
LAB | DATE | TOPIC | FOR REVIEW | ANIMATIONS* |
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Week 1 | Jan. 16 | Overview of invertebrate diversity |   |   |
Week 2 | Jan. 23 | Microscopy, Protozoa, Porifera | study images, key**
movies |
- Microscope parts & functions
- Choanoflagellate form & feeding - Sponge form & feeding |
Week 3 | Jan. 30 | Cnidaria & Ctenophora DISSECTION |
study images, key**
movies |
- Hydrozoan life cycle
- Scyphozoan life cycle |
Week 4 | Feb. 6 | Platyhelminthes QUIZ | study images, key**
movies |
- Excretory systems |
Week 5 | Feb. 13 | Aschelminthes (Nematoda & relatives)
MARKED DISSECTION |
study images, key**
movies |
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Feb. 20 |   |   | ||
Week 6 | Feb. 27 | Mollusca I- Gastropoda, Bivalvia
DISSECTION (Garstang's poem: How the gastropod got it's twist) |
study images, key**
movies |
- Filibranch form & feeding
- Eulamellibranch form & feeding |
Week 7 | Mar. 6 | Mollusca II- Cephalopoda, molluscan diversity
DISSECTION (download shell coiling program for Macintosh) |
study images, key**
movies |
- Squid form & locomotion |
Week 8 | Mar. 13 | Annelida & relatives (Echiura, Pogonophora, Sipuncula)
QUIZ, DISSECTION (Rhyming key to polychaete families) |
study images, key** | - Polychaete form & locomotion
- Earthworm form & locomotion |
Week 9 | Mar. 20 | Arthropoda: Crustacea
MARKED DISSECTION | study images, key** | - Decapod claw form & function
- Virtual Copepod (UCSD) |
Week 10 | Mar. 27 | Arthropod diversity | study images, key** |   |
Week 11 | Apr. 3 | Deuterostomia: Echinoderms, Lophophorates, Hemichordates MARKED DISSECTION Annotated Bibliographies due at start of lab. |
study images, key**
movies |
- Sea urchin form & feeding
- Virtual Urchin (Stanford Univ.) - Sea squirt form & feeding |
Week 12 | Apr. 10 | LAB FINAL EXAM | sample lab exams
Diversity Quiz |   |
* Most of these animations were written and directed by Rich Palmer, and programmed by Heather Kroening. Heather wrote, directed and programmed the hydrozoan & scyphozoan life cycles. To view the animations properly you must have the most recent version of the Flash browser plugin installed (download plugin). For other teaching animations, visit the Biological Sciences multimedia page. | ** To use the key to the study images most effectively, open a second window in your browser and to view the key and the study image at the same time (assuming your monitor is large enough!). |
UBC Invertebrate Biology (BIOL 205; Brian Leander- click on Virtual Labs link) (extensive study materials)
U Ottawa Invertebrate Zoology (BIO 3334; Jon Houseman- click on Lectures links to extensive links & study crossword puzzles)
Lander University- Invertebrate Zoology Online (Richard Fox, extensive laboratory resources)
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