EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY BIL 160






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Course Description:

Evolution and Biodiversity comprises the second half of our first-year core. Students will be introduced to the concepts of micro- and macroevolutionary processes, and then taken on a "Tiptoe through the Taxa", from Monera through Protista, Fungi, Animalia and Plantae--all in the context of the evolution of complexity. BIL 161, Evolution and Biodiversity Laboratory, is a corequisite for this course.
Once students have completed the BIL 150.151/160/161 cycle, they have fulfilled the basic prerequisites for most of our upper division biology courses.



Lecture Topics

Lecture No. Topic:
1 In the begining; Monera
2 Chlorophyll a and ozone
3 Eukaryotes; Chlamydomonas
4 Cell division & meiosis
5 Land plant evol.; non vascular plants
6 Ferns, leaves
7 Gymnosperms
EXAM 1
8 Xylem & phloem
9 Growth in height & girth
10 Angiosperms, flowers
11 Fungi
12 Soils & root function
13 Plant hormones & flowering
EXAM 2
14 Parazoa/Porifera
Spring Break
15 Eumetazoa-Diplo/triploblastic
16 Platyhelminthes; Nematoda
17 Proto. vs. Deuterostome; Annelids
18 Mollusca
19 Arthropods
EXAM 3
20 Echinodermata
21 Hemi. & Chordates; neural crest
22 Uro. & Cephalochordates; jaw evolution
23 Fishes; tetrapopd evolution
24 Amphibians; amniotic egg & sex
25 Mammals
FINAL EXAM

The required text is Biology by Neil A. Campbell.

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