Description
Prerequisite: BIO 181
This course involves the survey of Protists through the non-chordate members of Kindom Animalia. It will use selected taxa to illustrate concepts of evolution, systematics, physiology, morphology, life history, ecology and behaivor. Lectures will focus on organizing and interpreting information about invertebrate organisms in order to illustrate evolutionary relationships within and among taxa as well as adaptations that allow species to inhaibit specific habitats. Laboratories will supply models of taxa as described in lecture.