ELEMENTARY ZOOLOGY - BIL 106

Welcome to Elementary Zoology,
a 14-week Tour of Kingdom Animalia meeting from 3:35 - 4:50 every Monday and Wednesday in SA 126.

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  • Fall 2006 Syllabus
  • Fall 2006 Lecture Notes
  • Course Policies: Grading, Make-up Exams and Honor Code

    • Your Instructor this semester will be Dr. Dana Krempels. You can reach me by phone at (305) 284-3977, but will probably get a faster response via email at dana@miami.edu.

    Please feel welcome to come to my Office Hours, or make a special appointment at our mutual convenience by sending me an email.

    The textbook is Animal Diversity by Hickman, Roberts, and Larson.
    This following syllabus is a rough guide to what we'll be covering this semester, and is subject to revision, as circumnstances require and as time permits.

    SYLLABUS

    Date

    Topic

    Text Readings

    August 23

    Introduction: What is an Animal?

    Chapter 1, 3

     

     

     

    August 28

    From Aristotle to Darwin: The History Evolutionary Thought

    Chapter 1

    August 30

    Understanding Evolution from the Molecule Up: A Genetics Primer

    Chapter 1

     

     

     

    September 4

    LABOR DAY HOLIDAY

    Chapter 1

    September 6

    The Scientific Method: What is "Theoretical" about Darwin's Ideas?

    Chapter 1

    September 11

    Evidence for Evolution: Morphological and Ontogenetic Homology

    Chapter 1

     

     

     

    September 13

    Evidence for Evolution: Ontogenetic Homology (Heterochrony); Molecular Homology

    Chapter 1

    September 18

    Animal Ecology: Introduction to Abiotic Factors

    Chapter 2

     

     

     

    September 20

    EXAM I

    Study well!

    September 25

    Biomes: Where Animals Live

    Chapter 2

     

     

     

    September 27

    Organisms, Populations and Communities

    Chapter 2

    October 2

    Video: "Living Together"

    Chapter 2

     

     

     

    October 4

    Ecosystems

    Chapter 2

    October 9

    Systematics and Taxonomy

    Chapter 4

     

     

     

    October 11

    Animal Architecture

    Chapter 3, 5

    October 16

    Sponges and Jellies

    Chapter 6, 7

     

     

     

    October 18

    EXAM II

    Study well!

    October 23

    Pre-Protostomes: The Acoelomate Animals

    Chapter 8

     

     

     

    October 25

    Protostomes I: Lophotrochozoan Animals

    Chapter 10, 11

    October 30

    A special Halloween Treat!

    Video

     

     

     

    November 1

    Protostomes II: Ecdysozoan Animals

    Chapter 9 (pp 163-164; 167-173), 12

    November 6

    Deuterostomes I: Echinoderms

    Chapter 14

     

     

     

    November 7

    Deuterostomes II: The Chordates - An Overview

    Chapter 15

    November 13

    From Water to Land: Fishes and Amphibians

    Chapter 16, 17

     

     

     

    November 15

    Amniotes: Anapsids, Diapsids, Synapsids, oh my!

    Chapter 18, 19

    November 20

    EXAM III

    You can do it!

     

     

     

    November 22

    Amniotes: Anapsids, Diapsids, Synapsids continued

    Chapter 18, 19

    November 27

    Amniotes: Mammal-o-Rama I

    Chapter 20

    November 29

    Amniotes: Mammal-o-Rama II

    Chapter 20

     

     

     

    November 29

    Our friend, Homo sapiens

    Notes

     

     

     

    Tuesday, December 12

    FINAL EXAM: 2:00pm in SA 126

    Woohoo!
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