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Date Topics Up to Exam I
(Updated Tuesday 2/26)
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 Readings etc.
 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, Parasitism
 Protist Information
CDC Parasite Web Site
   Ch 3: 37-42, 58-61


      4
30
 Classification and Phylogeny
(handed out in Lab)
Tree of Life Home Page
Journey Into Phylogenetic Systematics
Ch 2: 16-29
Hwk #1 Due 2/4
5 - 6
Feb 1
-4 M
 
Evolutionary History of Metazoa
Berkeley Vendian Animals
 for Monday Read: Cambrian Explosion

Questions
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6-8
Sponges and Placozoan
World Porifera Data Base
Short video on sponges
Placozoa Genome Project
Link to cool sponge feeding simulations

Ch 4

Homework #2
Due  M 2/13
8


M 11

Cnidaria Body Plan and Medusae
U.C. Museum Cnidaria Page
The Coolest and Strangest Jellies
 Ch 6: 97-10

9-10
13
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Hydrozoa, Anthozoans
 
U.C. Museum Intro to Hydrozoa
 Ch 6: 110-117
: 118-127
      11   15 Coral Reef Ecology
 Coral Reefs Ecology
Smithsonian Coral Reef Site
Hoegh-Guldberg
     12    18 M
EXAM I
(including coral reefs)
See Copy of Previous Exam I
Exam I Review Sheet

13 20 Embryogeny & Phylogeny
(covered in Exam II)
Embryology Resources, Stanford Univ.
Sea Urchin Embryology Tutorial
Ch 2: 5-16
 14 22
Ctenophores
(Covered for exam II)
  Ch 7
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    16   27             Free Living Flatworms
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