Invertebrate Zoology Spring 2025 Tentative Course Schedule

 

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

8

Flatworms Live rotifers  
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 5)
Student Talks

3/4 

T

Platyhelminthes



 
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

Mollusca

 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


Lecture and lab at the Butterfly Pavilion


4/22

T

Arthropoda

 



4/24

R

Arthropoda

 

Arthropods
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 10)

Student talks

4/29 

T

Arthropoda
Echinodermata

 


5/1 

R

Lecture Exam 3
Practice Exam

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)

 

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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