EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY - BIL 160

Welcome to Evolution and Biodiversity,
a 14-week Tour of the Evolutionary processes that produced
the diversity of life surrounding us.

LAST CHANCE FOR ALL MAKE UP EXAMS IS TUESDAY, APRIL 30 AT 3:00PM IN SA 110. Please email me to tell me you're coming, and which exam you will be making up. If you are taking two make up exams, please also come on MONDAY, APRIL 29 AT 3:00PM to SA 110. Also email me the day before to tell me you're coming and which exam you'll be taking.

  • Spring 2002 Lecture Notes
  • Spring 2002 Workshops
  • Evolution and Biodiversity Laboratory For a "print friendly" version of this page (complete with syllabus), click HERE.

    • Your Instructor this semester will be Dr. Dana Krempels.

    You can reach her by phone at (305) 284-3977, but will probably get a faster response via email at dana@miami.edu.

    Office hours are from 10:00 - noon on Tuesdays and Thursdays, or by appointment at a time that's mutually convenient. Please send me an email to set up a meeting.

    The textbook is Biology by Campbell, same as for BIL 150.

    Here's the syllabus for Dr. Dana Krempels' Spring 2002 Evolution & Biodiversity Course. This schedule is a rough guide to what we'll be covering this semester, and is subject to constant revision, as circumnstances require and as time permits.

    Date

    Topic

    Text Readings

    Jan 15

    Introduction: Why study Biodiversity?

    Chapter 1

    Jan 17

    A Brief History of Evolutionary Thought

    Chapter 22

     

     

     

    Jan 22

    Origins and Microevolution

    Chapter 23, 26

    Jan 24

    Microevolution: Selection and fitness

    Chapter 23

     

     

     

    Jan 29

    Macroevolution: Reproductive Isolation & more

    Chapter 24

    Jan 31

    Ontogeny, Phylogeny and the Lineages of Life

    Chapter 26

     

     

     

    Feb 5

    Biosystematics and Taxonomy, Systema naturae

    Chapter 25

    Feb 7

    EXAM I (12:15 in SA 126)

    Good luck!

    Feb 7

    Prokaryotes

    Chapter 27

     

     

     

    Feb 12

    Eukaryotes: Unicellular Wonders

    Chapter 28

    Feb 14

    Kingdom Plantae: Taxonomy & Tissues

    Chapter 35

     

     

     

    Feb 19

    Kingdom Plantae: Taxonomy & Tissues, continued

    Chapter 35

    Feb 21

    Kingdom Plantae: Meristems & Anatomy of Root, Stem & Leaf

    Chapter 35

     

     

     

    Feb 26

    Kingdom Plantae: Growth & Development

    Chapter 35

    Feb 28

    Kingdom Plantae: Transport & Nutrition

    Chapter 36, 37, 38 (pp.730-734)

     

     

     

    Mar 5

    Kingdom Plantae: Control Systems

    Chapter 39

    Mar 7

    EXAM II (12:15pm in SA 126)

    This is it!

    Mar 7

    Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind

    a video of wonder

     

     

     

    Mar 11 -15

    SPRING BREAK! WOO!!

     

     

     

     

    Mar 19

    Kingdom Plantae: Life Cycles I

    Chapter 29

    Mar 21

    Kingdom Plantae: Life Cycles II

    Chapter 30

     

     

     

    Mar 26

    Kingdom Fungi

    Chapter 31

    Mar 28

    Kingdom Animalia: Form and Function

    Chapter 32

     

     

     

    Apr 2

    Kingdom Animalia: A Progression of Complexity

    Chapter 33

    Apr 4

    EXAM III (12:15pm in SA 126)

    Study hard!

    Apr 4

    Predation: A Video

    continue reading Chapter 33

     

     

     

    Apr 9

    Animal Body Plans

    Chapter 33

    Apr 11

    Protostomes

    Chapter 33

     

     

     

    Apr 16

    Deuterostomes

    Chapter 33, 34

    Apr 18

    Introduction to Ecology

    Chapter 50

     

     

     

    Apr 23

    Climate and Biomes

    Chapter 50

    Apr 25

    Organisms, Populations, Communities and Ecosystems

    Chapter 52, 53 (review), 54

    May 2

    FINAL EXAM (Thursday, 5:00pm in SA 126)

     
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