Invertebrate Zoology Fall 2021 Tentative Course Schedule

 

Date

Day

Lecture Topic

Textbook Chapter

Laboratory

8/24

T

Introduction
Classification

4
(pages 87-94)

Light Microscopy
Termite flagellates

Live protozoans

8/26

R

Evolution
Dobzhansky article
Protists

1


8/31

T

Protozoa (flagellates)

5

Live protozoans (continued)
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 1)

9/2

R

Protozoa (amoebas apicomplexans)

 

9/7
T
Protozoa (ciliates)

Cladistics
Live protozoans (continued)

Dr. Tatiana (Ch 2)

9/9

R

Introduction to Animals

  

 

9/14>

T

Porifera

6

Sponges
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 3)

Student Talks

9/16

R

Porifera


 

9/21

T

Lecture Exam 1 (practice)


Dr. Tatiana (Ch 4)
Live Hydra
Student Talks

9/23

R

Cnidaria

7


9/28

T

Coral Reefs
Ctenophora


 

Bring clothes for sampling in Cherry Creek
Please read before class: Aquatic Insects

9/30

R

Platyhelminthes

8



10/5

T

Platyhelminthes



Cnidarians
Live Planaria
(Bring dissection kit and hardboined egg to class)
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 5)
Student Talks

10/7

R

Embryology
Rotifera

3
(pages 73-78)

10/12

T

Mollusca

 10

Flatworms
Live rotifers
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 6)
Student Talks

10/14

R

Mollusca

 

10/19

T

Mollusca

 

Molluscs
Squid dissection (Bring dissection kit to class)
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 7)
Molluscs (cont
)
Student talks

10/21

R

Lecture Exam 2 (practice)


10/26
T
Annelida 11 Annelids
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 8)
Student talks
10/28
R
Annelida
Bryozoa
   

11/2

T

Nematoda

12

Nematodes
Ascaris dissection
(bring dissection kit)

Live vinegar eels
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 9)
Student talks

11/4

R

Nematoda

 


11/9

T

Nematoda

 

Arthropods
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 10)

Student talks


11/11

R

Arthropoda

13


11/16

T

Arthropoda (meet on campus for lecture as usual)

Field Trip to the Downtown Aquarium (4:00)
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 12)


11/18

R

Arthropoda  



week of 11/22

  Thanksgiving break  

11/30

T

No lecture
Meet at the Butterfly Pavilion
3:00 PM

 

Lecture and lab at the Butterfly Pavilion

12/2

R

Arthropoda


12/7

T

Echinodermata

14

Echinoderms
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 11)
review for final

12/9

R

Lecture Exam 3 (optional)

 


week of
12/13

12/14

Final Exam (2/14 at 2:00 pm)

 

Lecture Exams

Exam 1    Evolution, Classification, Protozoan, Porifera
Exam 2    Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Platyhelminthes, Embryology, Rotifera, Mollusca
Exam 3    Annelida, Bryozoa, Nematoda, Arthropoda
FINAL     Comprehensive including Echinoderms

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