Zoology 481/581, Animal Anatomy and Development, Fall 1999



Lecture Schedule
Laboratory Schedule

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Lecture: Churchill-Haines Room 101; T,R 0930-1045

Laboratory: Churchill-Haines Room 147; W 1400-1700, W 1800-2100


TENTATIVE LECTURE SCHEDULE

Date Lecture Topic Text Reading
8/31 Primitive Chordates, Vertebrate Phylogeny Chapter 2
9/2 Vertebrate Phylogeny: Fishes and Amphibians Chapter 3
9/7 Vertebrate Phylogeny: Amniotes Chapter 3
9/9 Vertebrate Phylogeny: Amniotes Chapter 3
9/14 Vertebrate Embryology Chapter 5
9/16 Vertebrate Embryology Chapter 5
9/21 Vertebrate Embryology; Nervous System - General Chapter 16
9/23 Nervous System - Brain and Cranial Nerves Chapter 16
9/29 Nervous System - Brain and Cranial Nerves Chapter 17
9/30 EXAM 1 (through Nervous System - General)
10/5 Nervous System - Sense Organs (Vision) Chapter 17
10/7 Nervous System - Autonomic Chapter 16
10/12 Skeletal System - General Chapters 8 & 9
10/14 Skeletal System - Skull Chapter 7
10/19 Skeletal System - Postcranial Chapters 8 & 9
10/21 EXAM 2
10/26 Muscular System Chapter 10
10/28 Circulatory System - General Chapter 12
11/2 Circulatory System - Heart Chapter 12
11/4 Circulatory System - Arterial Chapter 12
11/11 VETERAN'S DAY HOLIDAY - NO CLASS
11/12 Circulatory System - Venous Chapter 12
11/16 Gametogenesis, Fertilization Chapter 14 & pgs. 153-155
11/18 EXAM 3
11/23 Reproduction and Excretion Chapter 14
11/25 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY - NO CLASS
11/30 Reproduction and Excretion Chapter 14
12/2 Reproduction and Excretion Chapter 14
12/7 Integument and Derivatives Chapter 6
12/9 Digestive Tract and Derivatives Chapters 11 & 13
12/14 Digestive Tract and Derivatives Chapters 11 & 13
12/16 (Thursday) FINAL EXAM 1000-1200

The purpose of this course is to achieve an understanding of vertebrate anatomy and development. Lectures will cover both ontogenetic (embryological) and phylogenetic (evolutionary) aspects of vertebrate organ system development. Lecture material will be supplemented in the laboratory by first examining the developmental stages of each organ system, in an ontogenetic sense, as they occur in the frog and chick embryo. Next, the developmental stages of each organ system in an evolutionary sense will be examined by dissecting the dogfish shark (primitive condition) and the cat (advanced condition).
Four lecture exams will be given. The last lecture exam will be given at the regularly scheduled final exam period for this course. The lecture exams will comprise 60% of your final grade. Attendance is required at all scheduled exams.
You are required to take every exam since all will count toward your final grade. There will be no make-up exams unless you have a bona fide excused absence. This means that you must contact one of the instructors before the scheduled exam explaining why you cannot take the exam at the regularly scheduled time. All make-up exams will be entirely discussion and/or oral exams.
There will be three laboratory exams and they will make up 40% of your final grade. Roll will be taken in the laboratory and on some occasions in the lecture. You will be responsible for all material presented in the lecture and laboratory and past experience has shown a strong correlation between good exam scores and regular class attendance. Those students enrolled for graduate credit will be required to complete a term paper on a topic approved by the instructors.


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Laboratory Schedule
Date Topic Lab Manual
9/1 No Labs Scheduled
9/8 Primitive Chordates (demo.), Frog development, 33 hr chick (whole mount) Walker - Ch. 1 & p. 25-27, p.5-26 (frog), Plates 1-6, p. 27-30 (chick), Plate 7
9/15 33 hr chick; early chick development, (Know the female reproductive tract, p. 40) p. 34-47, Plates 8,9
9/22 48 hr. chick; 72 hr. chick, Summary of early development. p. 67-69, 72-78, 82, 90; Plates 20-31
9/29 Shark Brain and Eye, Sheep Brain p. 241-244; 220-224, p. 260-280
10/4 (Mon) 1st Lab Practical. 6:30 pm
10/6 Cat Eye and Ear, Shark Skeleton and Skull p. 224-228; 233-236, p. 52-63, 95-99, 111-115
10/13 Cat Skeleton and Skull p. 79-94, 102-110, 124-132
10/20 Shark Muscles, Cat Muscles p. 146-156, p. 165-173
10/27 Cat Muscles p. 174-199
11/3 Cat Muscles (Know the shark and cat muscle homologs on p. 139-141) p. 199-211
11/10 Shark Digestive, Circulatory, and Respiratory Systems p. 295-306, 339-357
11/15 (Mon) 2nd Lab Practical (will not cover Shark Circulatory, Digestive, and Respiratory Systems). 6:30 pm.
11/17 Cat Circulation p. 367-381
11/24 Cat Circulation and Digestion p. 381-392, 314-319, 322-324
12/1 Cat Digestive and Urogenital, Shark Urogenital p. 325-335, 413-430, p. 404-410
12/8 Final Laboratory Practical


The first three weeks of lab (except for part of Week 1), we will be using the embryo lab book by Schoenwolf, the rest of the semester we will be using Walker's "Vertebrate Dissection," so the page numbers provided refer to these two lab books, respectively.