LECTURE SCHEDULE                            PRESENTATIONS LAB SCHEDULE

January 12: Course Intro                                                                                 No lab this week.

January 14: The Biosphere: Internet Activity

January 16: Population growth: Internet Activity

January 19: No class: MLK                                                                            No lab this week.

January 21: Evolution

January 23: Adaptation/Speciation

January 26: Interactions among organisms                                                     Lab
Safety/Classification

January 28: Communities of organisms

January 30: Ecosystems (Assignment
1 is DUE)

February 2: Ecosystems (cont.)                                                                       Punnett Squares

February 4: Characteristics of living organisms

February 6: EXAM 1

February 9: Single celled organisms: Protists                                                 Hardy
Weinberg

February 11: Protists (cont.)                                       P1

February 13: Protists (cont.)                                       P2

February 16: Plant Week                                                                                Plant-like
protists/Plants I

February 18: Plants (cont.)                                          P3

February 20: Plants (cont.)                                          P4

February 23: Fungi                                                                                          Plants II

February 25: Fungi (cont.)                                          P5

February 27: EXAM 2

March 02: Characteristics of animals                                                              Fungus-like protists/Fungi

March 04: The human experience

March 06: Humans (cont.)                                          P6

March 09: Sponges                                                                                         PRACTICAL
I

March 11: Sponges/Jellyfish

March 13: Jellyfish (cont.)                                          P7, P8

March 16: No class: Spring break                                                                  No lab this week.

March 18: No class: Spring break

March 20: No class: Spring break

March 22:  Rotifers/Bryozoans                                                                                   Sponges
and jellies

March 24: Rotifers/Bryozoans                                    P9,
P10

March 26: EXAM 3

March 30: Worm week                                               P11                                          Worms and
rotifers

April 1: Worms (cont.)                                                P12, P13

April 3: Worms (cont.)

April 6: Molluscs                                                                                                         Bryozoans and molluscs

April 8: Molluscs (cont.)                                             P14, P15

April 10: Onychophorans/Arthropods

April 13: Arthropods                                                  P16                                          Arthropods

April 15: Deuterostomes/Echinoderms                       P17

April 17: EXAM 4

April 20: Fish                                                              P18, P19                                  Echinoderms/Chordates

April 22: Fish/Amphibians

April 24: Amphibians                                                  P20,
P21

April 27: Reptiles                                                                                                        PRACTICAL 2

April 29: Birds

May 01: Mammals

May 04: Presentations                                                 P22, P23, P24                         Lab
is over!

May 06: No class

May 08: No class

May 11: EXAM 5                                                                                                      No lab.