Weeks

Course Contents

Dates

Pages

1

Protection, Support, and Movement:

Integumentary system of invertebrates and vertebrates;

1st week

Miller and Harley 5th Edition

Page 350-354

2

The skeletal system of invertebrates and vertebrates

2nd week

Miller and Harley 5th Edition

Page 355-359

3

Movement: non-muscular movement; an introduction to animal muscles; the muscular system of invertebrates and vertebrates

3rd week

Miller and Harley 5th Edition

Page 359-367

4

Communication III: The Endocrine System and Chemical Messengers:

Chemical messengers: hormones chemistry; and their feedback systems;

4th week

Miller and Harley 5th Edition

Page 397-398

5

Mechanisms of hormone action;

5th week

Miller and Harley 5th Edition

Page 398-399

6

Hormones of porifera, cnidarians, platyhelminthes, nemerteans, nematodes, molluscs, annelids, arthropods, and echinoderms

6th week

Miller and Harley 5th Edition

Page 399-402

7

Endocrine systems of vertebrates

7th week

Miller and Harley 5th Edition

Page 402-405

8

Endocrine systems of birds and Mammals

8th week

Miller and Harley 5th Edition

Page 405-412

Mid Semester Examination

9

Circulation, Immunity, and Gas Exchange:

 Internal transport and circulatory systems in invertebrates: characteristics of invertebrate coelomic fluid, hemolymph, and blood cells;

9th week

Miller and Harley 5th Edition

Page 414-415

10

Transport systems in vertebrates; characteristics of vertebrate blood, blood cells and vessels; the hearts and circulatory systems of bony fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals; the human heart: blood pressure and the lymphatic system;

10th week

Miller and Harley 5th Edition

Page 415-422

11

Immunity: nonspecific defenses, the immune response; gas exchange: respiratory surfaces; invertebrate and vertebrate respiratory systems: cutaneous exchange, gills, lungs, and lung ventilation; human respiratory system: gas transport.

11th week

Miller and Harley 5th Edition

Page 423-431

12

Communication II: Senses: Sensory reception:

baroreceptors, chemoreceptors, georeceptors, hygroreceptors, phonoreceptors, photoreceptors, proprioceptors, tactile receptors, and thermoreceptors of invertebrates;

12th week

Miller and Harley 5th Edition

Page 381-385

13

lateral line system and electrical sensing, lateral-line system and mechanoreception, hearing and equilibrium in air and water, skin sensors of mechanical stimuli, sonar, smell, taste and vision in vertebrates.

13th week

Miller and Harley 5th Edition

Page 385-393

14

Communication I:

Nerves: Neurons: structure and function; neuron-neuron communication: introductory accounts of resting membrane potential, action potential (nerve impulse) and transmission of the action potential between cells;

14th week

Miller and Harley 5th Edition

Page 369-373

15

Invertebrate nervous systems: the ventral nerve cord and ganglia

15th week

Miller and Harley 5th Edition

Page 373-376

16

Vertebrate brain, the spinal cord, cranial and spinal nerves; autonomic nervous system

16th week

Miller and Harley 5th Edition

Page 376-380

Final Term Examination