Date |
Day |
Lecture Topic |
Textbook
Chapter |
Laboratory |
1/21 |
T |
Introduction
Classification
|
4
(pages 87-94)
|
|
1/23 |
R |
Evolution
Dobzhansky article
protists
|
1
|
Light Microscopy
Termite flagellates
|
1/28 |
T |
protozoa (flagellates)
|
5 |
|
1/30 |
R |
protozoa (amoebas apicomplexans)
|
|
Live protozoans
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 1)
|
2/4 |
T |
protozoa (ciliates)
|
|
|
2/6 |
R |
|
|
Live protozoans (continued) |
2/11 |
T |
Porifera |
6 |
|
2/13 |
R |
Porifera
|
|
Sponges
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 2 & 3)
Live Hydra
Student Talks |
2/18 |
T |
Lecture Exam 1
Practice
Exam
|
|
|
2/20 |
R |
Cnidaria
|
7
|
Cnidarians Live
Planaria (Bring hardboiled egg to class)
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 4)
Student Talks
|
2/25 |
T |
Coral Reefs
Ctenophora
|
|
|
2/27 |
R |
Platyhelminthes |
|
Flatworms Live rotifers
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 5)
Student Talks
|
3/4 |
T |
Platyhelminthes
|
|
|
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3/6 |
R |
Rotifers
Embryology
|
3 (pages 73-78) |
Molluscs
Squid dissection (bring dissection kit to class)
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 6)
Student talks |
|
3/11 |
T |
|
10 |
|
3/13 |
R |
Mollusca
|
|
Molluscs (cont)
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 7)
Student talks
|
3/18 |
T |
Mollusca
|
|
|
3/20 |
R |
Lecture Exam 2
Practice
Exam |
|
Bring clothes for sampling in Cherry Creek
Please read before class Aquatic Insect Biodiversity |
4/1 |
T |
Annelida |
11 |
|
4/3 |
R |
Annelida
Bryozoa
|
|
Annelids
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 8)
Student talks |
4/5 |
T |
Nematoda |
12 |
|
4/10 |
R |
Nematoda |
|
Nematodes
Ascaris dissection
(bring dissection kit)
Live vinegar eels
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 9)
Student talks
|
4/15 |
T |
Nematoda
*Election Day
|
|
|
4/17 |
R |
No lecture
Meet at the Butterfly Pavilion
TBA
|
13 |
|
4/22 |
T |
Arthropoda
|
|
|
4/24 |
R |
Arthropoda |
|
Arthropods
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 10)
Student talks
|
4/29 |
T |
|
|
|
5/1 |
R |
|
|
Echinoderms
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 11)
Student talks
Review for final
|
5/6 |
T |
Echinodermata |
|
|
5/8 |
R |
Field
Trip to the Aquarium
(meet at 9:30 at the Ballroom entrance)
|
14 |
|
week of
5/12 |
|
Final Exam (Thursday 5/15) |
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