BIOLOGY 513- COLLEGE PREP

UNIT TEN: ZOOLOGY: VERTEBRATE AND INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS

UNIT OBJECTIVES

UPON COMPLETION OF THIS UNIT, THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO:

¨ DEFINE CORE TERMINOLOGY.

¨ LIST THE SEVEN ESSENTIAL LIFE FUNCTIONS IN ANIMALS.

¨ LIST AND GIVE EXAMPLES OF EACH OF THE MAJOR INVERTEBRATE PHYLA.

¨ LIST THE WAYS DIFFERENT INVERTEBRATES CARRY OUT THEIR ESSENTIAL LIFE FUNCTIONS.

¨ DISCUSS FORM AND FUNCTION IN THE VARIOUS CLASSES OF VERTEBRATES.

¨ DESCRIBE THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF VERTEBRATES.

¨ LIST THE TYPES OF TEMPERATURE REGULATION IN VERTEBRATES.

¨ DESCRIBE THE MAJOR CHARACTERISTICS OF PRIMATES.

¨ DISCUSS THE WAYS IN WHICH VERTEBRATES CARRY OUT THEIR ESSENTIAL LIFE FUNCTIONS.

¨ GIVE EXAMPLES OF THE MAJOR VERTEBRATE CLASSES.

¨ COMPARE FORM AND FUNCTION OF THE MAJOR ORGANS OF VERTEBRATES.

¨ IDENTIFY ANIMALS FROM THE DIFFERENT PHYLA AND CLASSES.

TEXT RESOURCES: CHAPTERS TWENTY-SIX TO THIRTY-THREE