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Date Topics Up to Exam I
(Updated Tues 2/27/17)
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 1   Jan 18
Wed.
Course Introduction

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      2 20    Invertebrate Diversity
Tree of Life Home Page Preface & Ch 1
      3 23 M
Diversity Continued
Protistan Body Plan
Origin of Metazoa

 Protist Information
CDC Parasite Web Site
   Ch 3: 37-42, 58-61


      4
25
 Classification and Phylogeny
(will finish in Lab on Thursday)
Tree of Life Home Page
Journey Into Phylogenetic Systematics
Ch 2: 16-29

5 - 6
27-
M 30

 
Evolutionary History of Metazoa
Berkeley Vendian Animals
Explanation of molecular clock

  Hwk #1 Due
M 1/30
7
Feb 1
Sponges and Placozoa
Short video on sponges
Placozoa Genome Project
Link to cool sponge feeding simulations


Ch 4
Homework #2 Due W 2/8
3 PM


8


3
Sponges and Placozoa (contd)
Cnidaria Body Plan and Medusae
U.C. Museum Cnidaria Page
The Coolest and Strangest Jellies
 Ch 6: 97-10

9-10
M 6-8

Cnidaria Body Plan (contd)
Hydrozoa, Anthozoans
 
U.C. Museum
Intro to Hydrozoa

Hwk #2 Due
Ch 6: 110-117
: 118-127
      11   10 Cnidaria -anthozoans

 Coral Reefs Ecology
Smithsonian Coral Reef Site

    12 13 M EXAM I

An Exam eview Sheet posted in MyCourses Review Sheet posted in MyCourses
     13 15 W
Embryogeny & Phylogeny

 Embryology Resources, Stanford Univ.
Sea Urchin Embryology Tutorial
   Ch 2: 5-16
 14 17
Ctenophores

  Ch 7
15
20 M
Lecture notes tarting on February 26th and later can be found at : 
InvLect12-31.html


    16  22-24 Parasites continued
Free Living Flatworms