Date |
Day |
Lecture Topic |
Textbook
Chapter |
Laboratory |
1/20 |
T |
Introduction
Classification
|
4
(pages 87-94)
|
|
1/22 |
R |
Evolution
Dobzhansky article
protists
|
1
|
Light Microscopy
Termite flagellates
|
1/27 |
T |
protozoa
flagellates
|
5 |
|
1/29 |
R |
protozoa
amoebas
apicomplexans
|
|
Live protozoans
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 1)
|
2/3 |
T |
protozoa
ciliates
|
|
|
2/5 |
R |
|
6 |
Live protozoans (continued)
Sponges
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 2 & 3)
Student Talks |
2/10 |
T |
Porifera |
|
|
2/12 |
R |
Lecture Exam 1
Practice
Exam
|
|
Live Hydra
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 4)
Student Talks |
2/17 |
T |
Cnidaria
|
7
|
|
2/19 |
R |
Coral Reefs
|
|
Planaria (Bring hardboiled egg to class)
Cnidarians
Student Talks
|
2/24 |
T |
Ctenophora
Platyhelminthes
|
8 |
|
2/26 |
R |
Platyhelminthes
|
|
Flatworms
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 5)
Student Talks
|
3/3 |
T |
Platyhelminthes
Rotifers
|
|
|
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|
| 3/5 |
R |
Embryology
|
3 (pages 73-78) |
Molluscs
Live rotifers
Squid dissection model
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 6)
Student talks |
|
3/10 |
T |
|
|
|
3/12 |
R |
Mollusca
|
10 |
Molluscs (cont)
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 7)
Student talks
|
3/17-3/26 |
|
No class
|
|
|
| 3/31 |
T |
Annelida |
11 |
|
4/2 |
R |
Lecture Exam 2
Practice
Exam |
|
Annelids
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 8)
Student talks |
| 4/7 |
T |
Annelida
Bryozoa
|
|
|
4/9 |
R |
Nematoda |
12 |
Bring clothes for sampling in Cherry Creek
Please read before class: Aquatic Insect Biodiversity |
4/14 |
T |
Nematoda
|
|
|
4/16 |
R |
Nematoda
|
|
Nematodes
Ascaris dissection
(bring dissection kit)
Live vinegar eels
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 9)
Student talks
|
| 4/21 |
T |
Arthropoda |
13 |
|
4/23 |
R |
Meet at the Butterfly Pavilion
|
|
Lecture and lab at the Butterfly Pavilion
|
4/28 |
T |
Arthropoda |
|
|
4/30 |
R |
|
14 |
Echinoderms
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 10)
Student talks
|
5/5 |
T |
|
|
|
5/7 |
R |
Field
Trip to the Aquarium
(meet at 9:30 at the Ballroom entrance)
|
|
|
week of 5/11
|
|
Final Exam (Thursday 5/14) |
|
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