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Thursday, 10 May 2001

The Final Exam key and scores are posted.

• Note: bring previous handout with ciliate reproduction to class Wed. May 2nd
• handout on parasites: 4-23-01
• parasite website link: see the links page
• parasite PowerPoint presentation: available via links page
• ecology/diversity information with Lab 12 material, also used in lecture --
  if enrolled in lecture only (Zoo170) and not in the lab, you can pick up a copy of that material (everyone in lab already has it in their manual)
• studying for Final Exam (Monday May 7 at 7:30AM [!] ) ...
  • in order of importance (1 most important, but all are important):
    • 1. notes and handouts
    • 2. book/readings, particularly figures
    • 3. exams I, II, and III
    • 4. browse the web links (including the general ones at top)
  • over entire course
  • 4 sources of quesions:
    • a few directly from previous 3 exams
    • some from previous exams but altered
    • some completely new over previous material
    • plus questions over recent (Part IV) material
  • names and relationships (the phylogenetic tree) are important and will be on the exam (but those are not the only things that will be on it
  • will be projected pictures/figures
  • YOU can help write the next lab exam and final exam! (No extra credit but your questions might show up on the exam.) If interested, give or send your questions (and answers) --
    • for lab exam to your TA by Mon. (4-30-01) by 5 PM
    • for final exam to me by class Mon. (4-30-01) morning

• handout on remaining coelomates, be sure to pick up
• Exam results: key is posted on the key page; scores later (next week)
• I'm in the repair shop today for my knee ... thus, no lecture. But ...
  • study handout (and also bring to class next Wednesday);
  • read Campbell pages 608-614, 624-627
    and see Lytle pages 159-187, 219-230
    (you are NOT responsible for everything in Lytle, but looking at it will help);
  • pay close attention to material in lab this week.
• Have a good Easter. See you next week.

Announcements from class (summarized for entire period covered):

• handouts --
  • fish (and other chordates) taxonomy (3-21-01)
  • historical/paleontology supplements (3-28-01)
  • insect and other arthropod taxonomy (3-30-01) (... for use both on 3-30-01 and again on 4-4-01)
  • insect flight: physics and anatomy (4-2-01)

• schedule -- (modified for a number of reasons, including rescheduling of the eagle presentation)
  • (3-9-01 -- continued with amphibians and reptiles)
  • 3-19-01 -- start with fishes and other chordates
  • 3-21-01 -- continue with fishes
  • 3-23-01 -- video, deep Atlantic (fishes and others) [notes not required]
  • 3-26-01 -- presentation on my eagle work (incl. live eagle) [notes not required]
  • 3-28-01 -- time and historical aspects - paleontology
  • 3-30-01 -- intro to insects and arthropods (incl video clips [notes])
  • 4-2-01 -- insect flight (incl video clips [notes])
  • 4-4-01 -- other arthropods (incl video clips [notes])

• Examples of groups covered (amph., rept., fishes etc., arthropods) --
  • for all groups covered, see text(s), web pages (both general and specific links on the links page), lab (including persons not registered for lab, you are welcome to visit the labs to see the specimens), and displays in the halls
  • slides were shown in class for amph., rept., and fishes etc. (but won't be for insects and arthropods, for which there will be video clips)
  • for insects: in addition to above, see the display on insect orders (and other arthropods) in the hall display on the second floor of Hultz Hall, across from the entrance of the walkway to Ladd-Dunbar.

• be sure to have bird handout, discussed again today
• EXAM II coming up Friday --
  • format similar to Exam I, incl. pictures
  • # 2 pencils
  • different seating assignments, check chart first, before taking seat
  • remember your 5-digit passnumer
  • go over the instruction sheet beforehand
  • to cover material since the first exam, up through (including) today
  • note: will not have questions from Monday's video (room was too dark for notes)

• bird orders -- use handout from class in conjunction with:
  • surfing the web
  • hall displays (sorry that some are messed up; from wall painting and moving)
  • in lab this week (if you are not in Zool 170L, lab, you are still welcome to visit and look at specimens, books, etc.)

02-23-01 [and 02-26-01 -- video on eagles] (posted 02-28-01)

Readings: (listed slightly differently from last week, ... but same material)

• Lytle pages 49-50, 54-71
• Campbell pages 944-949

• handout on vision and neural processing (2/12/01, used all days)
• If have problems with exam scores, let me know by e-mail. I'll deal with them all at once and get back to you later.
• It is important that you read further in both the book and web links on both the current (neural processing/ brain) and next (reproduction/ development) topics. You are only responsible on this material for details that I cover in class. But further reading will provide more context and make what I cover much easier to understand and remember.

• for this week's material, see the list of items further below on vision and the brain
• for the next section:
  • Lytle pages 49-50, (skip 51-54 & associated terms), 55-60, 60-71}also for the next LAB
  • Campbell pages 940 (bottom)-950 (top), plus figure 22.10 on p. 424

2-9-01 (posted 2-9-01)

• CLASS CANCELED -- instructor has cold and sore throat
• exam scores are posted -- check yours against what you figured from the exam key.

• see list below

2-7-01 (posted 2-9-01)

• for vision --
  • you are NOT responsible for:
    • inverts. (section on pages 996-997)
    • all parts of the eye (Fig. 49.6)
    • focusing (Fig. 49.7)
    • details of the chemistry of vision (pages 999-1000)
  • rather, focus (pun intended) on Figs. 49.10 and 49.11
  • error on Fig 49.10 --  the fovea is mislabled; see Fig 49.6, which is correctly labled, for the fovea and blind spot
• for the brain, when we get to that ...
  • read and study the section "Structure and Function of the Vertebrate Brain" starting on p. 979 and following (to top of p. 984 and somewhat beyond)
  • you are NOT responsible for (all) of the details (just what we cover in class) in Figs. 48.16, 48.19, 48.20, and 48.23 (but look at and [eventually] understand them)

Readings: (see original syllabus ... up through neurons; postpone re. senses)

• except replace assigned pages 776-778 with 778-784 (only responsible for names of tissue and cell types mentioned in lecture, not others in the text)

01-26-01 (posted 01-25-01)

Announcements from class:

• If you didn't get the handout Wednesday, see me.
• Upcoming, relevant and excellent television program which relates to some of the material we are covering. It is not being assigned, but strongly recommended. (It was also shown twice earlier this week.) --
  • Affairs of the Heart, on PBS (Public Broadcast Stations)
  • two showings:
    night of Sat 27th at 11:00 PM,
    afternoon of Sun 28th at 2:00 PM.

Readings:

• For the muscle readings, don't worry about memorizing the "lines" and "bands"
  on pages 1014 and 1015 of Campbell. You are responsible for the concepts, as well as the terms that I cover in lecture, but not keeping the names of the lines and bands straight.
• For material covered in class Friday (the 26th ... and continuing into Monday the 29th -- plus will involve next week's lab), read all as assigned, but focus on:
  • pages 1014 bottom to top of 1018 (mostly 1015-1017)
  • Figure 49.32 on p. 1019
  • pages 815-817

• Handout: muscles of mammals
• There will be new stuff on the Course Links; keep checking them.
• Also use the CD that came with the main text (Campbell) for relevant material being covered over the next few days (weeks ... search out and use the relevant sections on the CD as appropriate for a valuable supplement in the class).
• (... other announcements re lab and needing an animal room assistant which were irrelevant by the time they were posted here -- lab over for week and we found a person to help.)

01-19-01 and 01-22-01: no new announcements -- just be sure to check the readings (see syllabus) and Course Links.

• Handout: (1) notes over killer whale video (2) mammal taxonomy
• Lab Manual -- 1st section (of 3)
  • $10 (total, only pay once)
  • available  from the secretaries in Stevens room 218
  • cash or check (to "NDSU")
  • make sure your name gets checked paid
  • READ material up through lab 1 BEFORE LAB
• Bring calculators (if have) to lab

• syllabus: see me if you missed class on 01-10-01
• (best seating for seeing screen: center of auditorium)
• Notes -- take good ones; I don't provide notes (except for an example from Wednesday's film -- available next Wednesday as a handout)
• Lab Manual -- will be ready afer class next Wednesday, from dept., NOT Varsity Mart ($10)

Readings:

(continue with readings as indicated 01-10-01, below)

• syllabus handed out (also see Syllabus page )
• best seating for seeing screen: center of auditorium
• NO LAB this week
• Lab ENROLLMENTS ... the Wednesday evening lab has many openings.
  If you are in another section and would like to change
  to the Wednesday evening section, you may do so.
• general note on announcements -- they will be projected on the overhead
  screen before the bell rings (unless I get detained) and removed when class
  starts -- if you are late or otherwise miss them, see this web page later.
  (Note: I try to get them posted on the web fairly soon after class, but
  sometimes they are delayed.)

for today -- brief intro: Campbell page 589 up through point 3 (you may ignore point 4 for now; those items will be covered later)