Animal Diversity Assignments

General Resources (Not only for this class):

Citing Internet Resources: A link showing how internet resources should be referenced.

Scientific Nonsense. The World Wide Web has become your source for all sorts of pseudoscientific nonsense. Listen to the NPR commentary (~ 3 min) Needs Real Audio; get it here.

MOVIE REVIEW LINKS          (ALL CLASSES INCLUDED)

Required Reading Assignments:

1. Breakthrough of the Year: Evolution in Action (Note, if the link doesn't work, read about it in Secret Readings)

   • Movie (The Flash Version Seems to Work Best ~ 15 minutes)

   • The Runners Up are here. If the link doesn't work, read about it in Secret Readings

2. Evolution Movie (YouTube)
3. Five (More or Less) Kingdoms   
4. Three Domains
5. LAB 1: Mechanisms of Evolution. Peppered Moth Simulation. 
6. The Geologic Time Scale (Only read to the first links)
7. View Darwin's Hammer Movie
8. Eucaryotic Evolution: (Alternative Format)
9. Early eukaryotic cell fossils can be scoped out here.

10. LAB 2: Microscope Work

    • Starfish Embryology  pdf (Print out for laboratory)

    • The Protists

    • Pond Water Laboratory pix for in the lab or for review (do NOT print out)

    • Tissue Lecture for Lab (Tissue Lab with Tissue Pictures)

11. The Road to Multicellular Life 
12. Embryology and Evolution
    • Top of the tree
    • Starfish embryology pix
    • Determinant vs. indetermanant development
    • Radial vs. spiral cleavage
    • Deuterostomes vs. Protostomes
    • Entero- vs. Schizocoelous development
13. Taxa Examples.
14. Phyletic Tree
15. Species and Phyla Evolutionary Time Line
16. Human Evolution Summary
17. Summary Time Line (Includes all species)
18. Brain sizes
19. Body cavities: Acoelomate, coelomate (eucoelomate) and pseudocoelomate.
20. View Darwin's Hammer Movie NOTE: The annotated version has nearly everything that you need from the timeline
21. The Vendian Animals
22. Sponges: Phylum Porifera
23. Phylum Cnidaria (Coelenterata) The jelly animals!
24. Phylum Ctenophora (Comb Jellys)
25. Phylum Platyhelminthes (Flatworms)
26. From a Flatworm: New Clues on Animal Origins. Read overview here (READ ME!)
27. Intro to Neurons 
28. Simple Nervous Systems
29. Central Nervous System
30. Terri Schiavo Neurobiology in the news
31. Phyla Nematoda and Nematomorpha
32. SPRING!
33. Phylum Rotifera
34. Mollusca
35. Circulatory Systems
36. Annelids  
37. Arthropods  (Don't forget the insect orders) An Arthropod PDF Review Sheet is Here
38. Cool Cephalopod Vids
39. Eyes!
40. Evolution of the Eye Movie
41. Bill's Mechanoreception Page
42. Sensory Overview
43. Echinoderms (An Echinoderm review PDF is here)
44. Chordates (Don't forget the orders in the main mammal overview) A Chordate review PDF is here

Junk Drawer 4 me so I don't lose these pix.