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MARKS Posted: 28 May 2006
Here is a summary of your marks for everything except Michael's final exam.
(Note: ALL prac marks are out of 5. The running total is also given.
As 80% of assessable items contributing to your final grade have been marked, the maximum you can have is 80%).

SCIENCE: Posted: 28 May 2006
Here is a webpage with some amazing visual illusions (I showed you this website in the class).
These images were created by Professor Akiyoshi KIitaoka of the Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan.

SCIENCE: Posted: 19 May 2006
Here is a very recent paper (as a PDF) explaining when bird mimicry occurs. The references of this paper may
direct you towards other questions you have.

SCIENCE: Posted: 19 May 2006
Here is a webpage by Joe Wolfe explaining why medium absorption is less in water than in air.
Joe also has a website that helps to explain general concepts in sound production.)

Posted: 26 May 2006
A summary of your marks for ALL the Prac Quizzes and Pat's exam.
(Note: ALL prac marks are now presented as out of 5. The running total is also given.
As only 55% of assessable items contributing to your final grade have been marked, the maximum you can have is 55%).

Posted: 18 May 2006
A summary of your marks for the first five Prac Quizzes and Pat's exam.
(Note: ALL prac marks are now presented as out of 5. The running total is also given).

Posted: 12 May 2006
A summary of your marks for the first 4 Prac Quizzes and Pat's exam.
(Note that Prac marks are presented as out of 5 or 10 marks, but each Prac will contribute 5% to the final mark)

Posted: 31 March 2006
Your mark for Scott's Prac Quiz.

Posted: 21 March 2006
Your mark for Pat's exam.

Posted: 17 March 2006
The marked practical quiz was handed back at the end of the lecture.

Posted: 22 Feb 2006
See the Practicals Page for info on which day you have been assigned to

Posted: 22 Feb 2006
Your class representative is Sarah McLagan. Her email is sjmclagan@hotmail.com

Posted: 20 Feb 2006 :Initial Information

What Practical Day have I been assigned to?

What do I need to buy for for the Practicals ?

Have I taken a course that is incompatible with this one?

Can you tell me more about the Theory Exams that occur in Class Time?

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INFORMATION ON THEORY EXAMS: General Rules

You MUST attend the exams. Clashes, holidays and so on won't get you out of the exam, so don't ask.
The exam dates are known from the first day.

The two theory exams will take place during the normal lecture time.
They will start at five minutes past the hour and absolutely end at five minutes till the hour.
DO NOT ARRIVE LATE. If you do you will not be given any extra time on the exam.
Wait outside the room until the exam starts. You will be handed an exam paper as you walk in.
No talking is allowed once in the room. Put everything except your exam and a pen under the table.
Cheating will result in automatic failure. You have been warned.

What's on Exam 1 (Pat's Exam)?

Pat will discuss the contents of her exam and the form of questioning during the lectures. Attend the lectures and you will know what the exam is about.

What's on Exam 2 (Scott's Exam)?

The exam will be a mixture of 25 basic "fact" questions (such as classification of the animals we talked about, basic morphological or defining features) and "thinking" questions about broad themes presented, to make sure you were listening. The style will be lists and short answer.
Yes, you do have to know the classification schemes I have presented, but only down to the level of detail indicated in this prac book for prac 2 (All the bits in bold).
I have consistently presented a common theme in these lectures major characteristics of major groups, unusual aspects of their biology, and major characteristics of transitional forms. I spent a lot of time talking about the morphological jumps between fish and amphibians, amphibians and reptiles, reptiles and birds, reptiles and mammals, etc.

What's NOT on Exam 2 (Scott's Exam)

I do NOT expect you to know species names of all the animals talked about.
I'm not going to show you a picture and ask what sort of lizard this is.
I'm not going to ask you what reproductive strategy a particular species of frog has.
I'm not going to show you a bone and ask you to identify it.

Example Questions for Exam 2 (Scott's Exam)

· List the four major characteristics of vertebrates as displayed in Amphioxus:
· List four major characteristics that represented the minimum requirements necessary for aquatic vertebrates to invade the land:
· Explain in a few sentences the two ways that bony fish can adjust the gas in their swim bladders:
· What is an AMNIOTE and which major groups of vertebrates belong to this group.
· Explain in a few sentences why the reptiles are a paraphyletic (unnatural) taxonomic group.
· What is the major difference between the Actinopterygii and the Sarcopterygii fishes?
· Despite the move onto land more than 400 million years ago, amphibians are still fish like in many ways, list four characteristics that amphibians and fish share:
· Crocodilians and mammals share a unique (though independently evolved) feature of the skull that is associated with breathing. What is this feature?

YOU MUST BUY A DISPOSABLE LAB COAT AND YOU CAN BUY A DISSECTION KIT
The lab coat costs approximately $4.00
The dissection kit costs approximately $21.70

** VERY IMPORTANT **

Animal Evolution and Ecology (Biol1005) is INCOMPATIBLE with Zoology 1005, the old Human and Vertebrates (Biol1002) or the old Origins and Diversity of Life (Biol1001) classes. If you have already taken any of these classes, you CAN NOT take Biol1005.
You have to find another class.

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