biol 212 spring

Tentative schedule!

                                Lecture Topics                                             Campbell text(?)                    Lab Exercise

Week 1                   Introduction                                                                                                  observation and

April 6^th ….            Phylogenetics                                                                                                       phylogeny labs

 

Week 2                   Germ Cells/Gametogenesis                         Ch 47                                      Development lab

April 13^th                Cleavage

Group Project Proposed Topics due April 16^th in class

 

Week 3                   Gastrulation/ Neurulation                           Ch 21                                      Diversity lab

April 20^th                Neurulation/ Axis Development                                                               

Observation, Phylogeny and Development labs due April 20^th

Journal #1 DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS ON April 24th  

 

Week 4                   Animal Reproduction                                  Ch 46                                      Diversity lab

April 27^th                Endocrine System                                        Ch 45

EXAM #1 DUE BY NOON ON MAY 1st   (Taxonomy, Dev, Repro, Endocrine)

 

Week 5                   Nervous System                                           Ch 48                                      Diversity lab

May 4^th  

PAPER Rough Draft BY NOON ON MAY 8^th

 

Week 6                   Special Senses                                              Ch 48                                      Nervous system lab

May 11^th                

Diversity lab due May 14^th –at the beginning of class

 

Week 7                   Skeletal Muscle                                            Ch 49                                      Circulation lab

May 18^th                 Cardiovascular                                             Ch 42                                     

Journal #2 DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS ON May 21st

Nervous System lab due May 20^th –at the beginning of class

 

Week 8                   Cardiovascular                                             Ch 42                                      NO LAB - Holiday

May 25th               Immunity

EXAM #2 DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS ON May 28th (NS, Special Senses, Skeletal, CV)

 

Week 9                   Respiration                                                    Ch 42                                      Respiration lab

June 1^st                                                                                                                                          

Circulation lab due June 1^st –at the end of lab

PAPER Final Draft DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS ON JUNE 4th  

 

Week 10                 Digestion                                                       Ch 41                                      Digestion lab

June 8^th                                                                                                                                          

Journal #3 DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS ON June 11th

 

Week 11                 Osmoregulation                                            Ch 44                                      Urogenital lab

June 15^th                                                                                                                                        

Respiration and Digestion labs due June 15^th – at the end of lab

 

Presentations are during the scheduled final: June 19^th 8-10AM in the lecture room. This is when the final is scheuduled.

EXAM #3 DUE by noon on June 18^th (Immunity, Resp, Digest, Osmoreg)

 

CLASSES END ON June 19^th  – PLEASE DO NOT SCHEDULE YOUR SUMMER BREAK PLANS BEFORE THIS TIME!

Example papers

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Suggestions for lab notebooks: If writing on graph paper, PLEASE write in pen or dark pencil; It's difficult to read pencil on a grid of dark ink. Make sure all your notebook pages are attached to the notebook or inside a notebook pocket; If loose pages fall on the floor, I'll probably leave them there. Please do not intersperse your lab pages with those of the lab protocol. Make it EASY for me to find your work. Place it in sequential order. Please make your AIMS section more descriptive/specific and more complete. Reread the syllabus for guidance. Anything worth drawing is worth labeling. Drawings without labels convey very little information. In the AIM section, be specific about what you will do, how you will do it, what types of material you will use to accomplish the lab, etc. Attach observations to your drawings. Write short notes about what different structures are used for, perhaps where the organism lives, etc. Extract maximum value from your time spent observing. Please use scale bars and magnification. ·         Your interpretations should summarize and more importantly synthesize what you learned, refer back to your AIMS (did you meet them?), and include any additional inferences or ideas you generated based on your observations. ·         If you are not attending lab and not doing the lab activities – unless you have an excused absence – your lab will not be graded for that lab session/activity.   Example AIM: In this lab we will explore the morphologic, developmental and physiologic diversity of the phylum Animalia. We will use dissections of both fresh and preserved material, prepared slides, live animals, posters, preserved whole specimens and internet images to explore patterns of change in organ systems and body plan arrangements from the simplest to most complex taxa. We will focus on tracking evolutionary changes in body symmetry, development of a coelomic cavity, the development and arrangement of tissues, and the appearance and increasing complexity of the respiratory, digestive, orsmoregulatory, nervous, and reproductive systems.