BIOL 2441

Exclusion(s): Unavailable to students with credit for BIOL235. An overview of vertebrate animals, with emphasis on their phylogenetic interrelationships, a review of the diagnostic characters of the major groups and a survey of past and modern diversity. Lectures will highlight major evolutionary trends, lifestyles, adaptations and interesting features of vertebrate life past and present. Course includes a lab component: labs involve the systematic dissection of study specimens, with examination of organ systems, their tissues and histology, with supplementary information from slides.