BIO-119: Animal Evolution and Diversity

Department
Credits 4.00
Academic Level
Undergraduate
Instructional Method
Lecture
This course provides a survey of vertebrates and invertebrates, and it describes current views on the evolutionary paths hypothesized to have given rise to living and extinct animals. The laboratory will emphasize animal identification from specimens and models, and it will include exercises relating to animal behavior and biochemical methods of taxonomy and systematics. Three hours lecture, three hours laboratory. Fulfills General Education requirement in Natural Sciences. 4 credits.