Animal Diversity Laboratories

• LAB1: Introduction to Animal Diversity. 
  • Introduction to Taxonomy 
  • Using a key to animal phyla and classes: Print out the Word Version.

• LAB 2: Microscope Work

  • Microscope Review (Bellarmine students should not print out this laboratory HERE)

  • Starfish Embryology  (Download and print out for laboratory HERE)

  • The Protists  (A laboratory chapter is available on that page. Bellarmine students should print THIS out)

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

• LAB 3: Print out the  Tissue Lab
  • Tissue Pictures for viewing on the internet
• LAB 4: Animal Diversity I: The Simple Beasts- Phyla Porifera and Coelenterata. Print out the Word Version.
• LAB 5: Animal Diversity II: Assorted Worms. Print out the Word Version.  also available in Pig Latin
  • Animal Diversity II: Body cavities: Acoel, eucoel and pseudocoel.
  • From a Flatworm: New Clues on Animal Origins. Read overview here (READ ME!)
• LAB 6: Animal Diversity III: Phyla Mollusca and Annelida. Print out the Word Version.  (Squid Dissection Diagram)
• LAB 7 and 8: Animal Diversity IV: Phylum Arthropoda. Print out the Word Version.  This is also available in jive!
  • Limulus External Anatomy Picture
  • Limulus Internal Anatomy Picture  
  • Grasshopper Dissection Diagram
• Lab 9: Animal Diversity V: Phyla Echinodermata and Chordata. Print out the Word Version. 
• Lab 10: Animal Diversity VI: Phylum Chordata, Subphylum Vertebrata, (Bring the last lab with you AND PRINT THIS OUT and the Fetal Pig Dissection found below)
• Vertebrate Dissection Diagrams
  • Shark Dissection (PDF)
  • Perch/Fish Dissection (PDF)
  • Frog Dissection (PDF)
  • Fetal Pig Dissection (PDF)
    • MOVIES
    • Part 1
    • Part 2
    • Part 3
    • Part 4
    • Part 5
    • Part 6
    • Virtual Pig Dissection <==== USE THIS TO STUDY THE PIG DISSECTION
    • Milkshake
  • Skull and Skelton Pix (PDF)
• Lab 11: Visual display by male fighting fish
  • MOVIES
    • Ecology of Beta splendens
    • Betta display
    • Spawning with bubble nest
• Lab 12: Review (Power Point Review)
• Other Stuff
  • STATISTICS!
  • Mitosis and Meiosis Simulation (Word Format or PDF) Mitosis Pictures!
  • Biochemical Genetics: DNA, RNA, and Protein Synthesis (Word Format or PDF or in Pig Latin)
  • Nerves. The simulation is here. (Word Format or PDF)
  • LAB 1: Mechanisms of Evolution. Peppered Moth Simulation. 
  • Cut-the-head-off-the-frog Lab and Vertebrate Structure. Get it here (HTML Version is here)