Animal-Like Protists
Week: 2
Animal-Like Protists:
The Protozoa; life within a single plasma membrane; symbiotic life-styles. Protozoan taxonomy: (up to phyla, subphyla and super classes, wherever applicable). Pseudopodia and amoeboid locomotion; cilia and other pellicular structures; nutrition; genetic control and reproduction; symbiotic ciliates; further phylogenetic considerations.
Source: Miller & Harley, 2016 (pp. 129-146)
Source: Miller & Harley, 2002 (pp. 105-118)
Internet sources for explanation of terminologies
Course Material
- Introduction:Architectural pattern of an animal, taxonomy and phylogeny, major subdivisions of animal kingdom with evolutionary perspective.
- Animal-Like Protists
- Multicellular and Tissue Levels of Organization:
- Triploblastics and Acoelomate Body Plan:
- Phylum Nemertea; Phylum Gastrotricha; further phylogenetic considerations.
- Pseudocoelomate Body Plan
- Phylum Rotifera and Phylum Kinoryncha
- Phylum Nematoda
- Molluscan Success
- Class bivalvia, Polyplacophora, Scapophora, Monoplacophora:
- class cephalopods, Aplacophora, Caudofoveata
- Phylum Annelida
- Phylum Arthropoda, Subphylum Trilobitomorpha
- Subphylum Chelicerata and Crustacea
- Phylum Echinodermata
- Class Holothroidea, Class Crinoidea and Class Concentricycloidea
- Final Exams
- Chapters 17
- Department Chemistry
- Teacher
Saira Siddique
