GENERAL ZOOLOGY 
TENTATIVE SPRING COURSE OUTLINE: 
LECTURE AND LABORATORY

Week

Topic

Chapters

Week

Topic

Chapters

1

Introduction  and Protozoa
LAB: Microscopy

 6,15,16

9

Birds, Mammals and Integument
LAB: Echinoderms

 6,30,31

2

KING HOLIDAY
Protozoa, Porifera and Radiates LAB: Protozoans

 16,17

10

LECTURE EXAM II
Support and Movement
LAB: Chordates - Pisces

 6

3

Radiates and Acoelomates
LAB: Poriferans & Radiates

 18,19

11

Homeostasis
LAB: Amphibians - Mammals

 6,7

4

Pseudocoelomates and Mollusca
LAB: Acoels & Pseudocoels

 20,21

12

SPRING BREAK

5

LECTURE EXAM I,
Mollusca and Annelida
LAB: Molluscs & Annelids

 21,22

13

Circulation
LAB: Chordate Anatomy I
 LAB NOTEBOOK DUE

 8

6

Annelida and Arthropoda

 23

14

LECTURE EXAM III
Respiration and Defense
LAB: Chordate Anatomy II

8,9 

7

LAB EXAM I, NOTEBOOK DUE
Echinodermata and Chordata
LAB: Arthropods I

 25,26

15

Feeding and Nervous System
LAB: Chordate Anatomy III

 10,11

16

8

Pisces, Amphibians and Reptiles
LAB: Arthropods II

 27,28,29

17

FINAL EXAM WEEK

LECTURE EXAM I: thru pseudocoels
LECTURE EXAM II: molluscs thru chordates
LECTURE EXAM III: integument thru transport
FINAL EXAM: gas exchange thru endocrine (2/3), old material (1/3)

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