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Topics Up to Exam I
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 Readings & Links to Chp Questions
 1   Jan 23
Wed.
Course Introduction

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      2 25    Invertebrate Diversity
Tree of Life Home Page Preface & Ch 1
      3 28 M
Protistan Body Plan
 Protist Information
University of Montreal
   Ch 3: 33-59
      4
30
 Protists and Parasitism
Origin of Metazoa
CDC Parasite Web Site
Ch 3: 62-69
5 - 6
Feb 1-4
 
Evolutionary History of Metazoa
Berkeley Vendian Animals
 Monday: Cambrian Explosion

Questions
7 6
Classification & Phylogeny
(in powerpoint format)
Tree of Life Home Page
Journey Into Phylogenetic Systematics
Ch 2: 14-29

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Sponges and Placozoan
World Porifera Data Base
Short video on sponges
Placozoa Genome Project
Link to cool sponge feeding simulations

Ch 4
(answers)
Homework #1
Due  M 2/11
9
 11 M
Cnidaria Body Plan

U.C. Museum Cnidaria Page
Bioluminescense web site
 Ch 6: 97-10
(answers)
10-11
13-15
Hydrozoa, Anthozoans
 & Coral Reefs

 Ch 6: 105-113
: 113-122
    12   18 M
  Embryogeny & Phylogeny
(covered in Exam II)
    Embryology Resources, Stanford Univ.
Sea Urchin Embryology Tutoria
Ch 2: 5-16
    13    20  EXAM I See Copy of Exam I, S 2006 Key
Exam I Review Sheet

 14 22
Ctenophores and Bilateria
(Covered for exam II)
  Ch 7