Course Schedule: Biology 4360 Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy and Physiology

Lecture: Tuesday, Thursday 9:25 to 10:40

Lab Thursday: 10:50 to 1:30

Textbook: Functional Anatomy of the Vertebrates, Liem Bemis, Walker, Grande, 3^rd Edition

Lab text: Atlas and Dissection Guide for Comparative Anatomy, Wischnitzer and Wischitzner, 6^th edition

Lecture Schedule:

Week Beginning Topics Text Chapter

Aug 18: Introduction 1

Aug 25: Chordates and craniates 2,3

Sept 1: Test 1, Development 4

Sept 8: Development and function 4,5

Sept 15: Function 5

Sept 22: Integument 6

Sept 29: Test 2 , Cranium 7

Oct 6: skeletons 8,9

Oct 13: Muscles 10

Oct 20: Locomotion 11

Oct 27: Test 3 , Senses 12

Nov 3: Brains 13,14

Nov 10: Digestion and urinary 17,20

Nov 17: Test 4, Circulatory 18

Nov 24: Respiratory 19

Dec 1: Reproductive, Test 5 20

Comprehensive final: To be announced

Lab Schedule: To be determined

This schedule is subject to change as the semester progresses. Test weeks will stay constant and all quizzes and lab tests will be announced one week in advance.

Last Day to withdraw from the course: October 27, 2008