20FA_BI232A-Invertebrate Zoology

Here is your final exam.  Please download it to your computer.  You can open it as a word .doc and type in your answers or you can print it out and write your answers by hand.  As soon as you open the file, please sign the Honor Code statement on page 1.  You will then have a 3 hour window in which to complete the exam and submit it to Moodle either as the .doc file that you typed into, a .pdf or a scanned-in version of your hand-written answers.  If you have questions during the exam you can email me, but I may not be able to respond immediately because I may be out on a research boat or on the road back to the 'ham.

Good luck and have a great break,

DrG

Please read all of these before Lab on Monday the 31st.

Please read all of these before Lab on Monday the 31st.

Please read all of these before Lab on Monday the 31st.

This folder contains the Cool Green assignment that is due by the start of lab next week.  There will be a link so that you can upload your work on to Moodle.  

This folder also contains several research papers on the cues that stimulate and/or inhibit mosquito oviposition.  Please have each person in your alphabetic group read a different one of the papers and then explain the oviposition cues studied in that paper to other group members.  Discuss in your group what 2-4 cues or potential cues are most intriguing.  Please come to lab next week ready to explain to the whole class which cues your group found most intriguing.  Then be prepared to tell the whole class - "We think that __ is the coolest oviposition cue to study because it _____ and here is how we are going to do our experiments____!"

On Wed. we will continue to talk about Sponges, but we will also discuss the question: Why do mosquito borne diseases have a disproportionate impact on economically disadvantaged and marginalized people?  Before Wed. please read any one of the papers posted on Moodle about how socio-environmental differences can magnify the impact of diseases spread by mosquitos.  Don’t worry about reading the whole papers, just focus on what factors affect the disease impact.

We will try to cover the flatworms, Phylum Platyhelminthes, on Wednesday so please be sure to read Ch. 8 before class.  Come prepared to discuss what adaptations they have for being successful parasites.  Which ones seem creepy to you?  Which parasite would you hate to be a host for?

Here you will find the data and instructions you need to complete Part 2 of the Mosquito diversity across an Anthropogenic Impact Gradient exercise.  Please complete this assignment and submit to Moodle by Friday the 30th.

Here is the map of data collection stations and some sample research questions.  I added a .doc with the years that they have data for in AL, FL and GA and Puerto Rico.