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| WK | DATE | LECTURE TOPIC | LAB TOPIC | ASSIGNMENT |
| 1 | Aug 26 Aug 28 |
Introduction to Animal Diversity
Major Animal Groups/Reconstructing Evolutionary Trees |
Animal Observations Cladograms/Characters |
Handout Pack 1 Handout Pack 1 |
| 2 | Sep
2 Sep 4 |
Labor
Day: No Class A Brief History of Animals |
No Class |
Carroll et al., Ch. 1 |
| 3 | Sep 9 Sep 11 |
Animal Architecture (Monday a.m.: Optional
Fieldtrip) Animal Architecture (cont.) |
Porifera (sponges) Cnidarians |
B&B, Ch. 3 |
| 4 | Sep 16 Sep 18 |
Metazoan Origins and Sponges;
Evidence for Evolution Yellowfin Cruise (Meet at SCMI @ 12:00) |
Cnidarians Yellowfin Cruise |
R&B: 69-73; F&H: 21-30 |
| 5 | Sep 23 Sep 25 |
Phylogenetic Classification/Metazoan Monophyly |
Molluscs-Chitons Molluscs-Snails |
R&B: 1043-1056; N: 1-33 R&B: 96-103; 997-1003 |
| 6 | Sep 30
Oct 2 |
Molluscs (cont.) |
Molluscs-Bivalves Molluscs-Squids |
Unit
1 |
| 7 | Oct 7 Oct 9 |
Fieldtrip to Upper Newport Bay, Shaw's
Cove Annelids-Polychaetes |
Practicum
I Annelids-Polychaetes |
R&B: 175-202 |
| 8 | Oct 14 Oct 16 |
Epithelia/Skeletons/Movement/Nerves/Eyes/ Guts/Embryos/Colonies Arthropods |
Aquatic Arthropods Crustaceans |
B&B, Ch. 3; R&B: 337-343, 362-365; 500-506 |
| 9 | Oct 21 Oct 23 |
Arthropods and other Ecdysozoans
(cont.) Deuterostomes (Echinoderms and others) |
Crustaceans |
|
| 10 | Oct 28 Oct 30 |
Deuterostomes (Echinoderms
and others) Lecture Exam - Overview of Major Groups |
Echinoderms Minor Phyla |
|
| 11 | Nov 4 Nov 6 |
Fieldtrip to Big
Creek (5:30 a.m. Nov. 2 to Nov. 4 p.m.) Cambrian Explosion |
Fieldtrip Urochordates |
Briggs: 1-50, 217-221 |
| 12 | Nov
11 Nov 13 |
Open Lab Evolution of Bilaterian Genomic Toolkit |
Open
Lab Practicum II |
Carroll et al., 15-53; Davidson: 1-23 |
| 13 | Nov 18
Nov 20 |
Evo Devo - Insect and Vertebrate Comparisons Evo Devo (cont.) |
Individual Projects Individual Projects |
Carroll, Ch. 4 |
| 14 | Nov 25
Nov 27 |
Fall Break - No Classes | -- | -- |
| 15 | Dec 2 Dec 4 |
Student Presentations Student Presentations |
TBA TBA |
TBA TBA |
| 16 | Dec 9 Dec 11 |
Student Presentations Student Presentations |
TBA TBA |
TBA TBA |
| Friday | Dec 20 | All Assignments Due "Final" 12:00-1:50 SLC 248 | Chs. 23-30 |