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College Catalog 2013-2014 
    
College Catalog 2013-2014 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

BIOL 361 - Animal Diversity


An introduction to the science of zoology. Students will become familiar with the major groups of marine, terrestrial, and freshwater animals such as sponges, corals, crustaceans, molluscs, insects, and echinoderms. Through lectures, discussions, field trips, dissections, and laboratory observations of live specimens students will learn to identify animals and understand their anatomy and evolutionary history. Students will complete independent projects involving field collection and identification of local invertebrates. Three hours of lecture and one three-hour lab each week. Prerequisite(s): BIOL 270 . Offered every other year. (4 Credits)