BIOL 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sexual Conflict, Morphine, Chemotherapy
14 Apr 2017
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There will be a bell ringer at the end. Identifying, how well you can do the dissection, how well you can teach your peers. Zooology- miller and harley, 8th or 9th ed. A photographic atlas- van der graaff, 5th ed. Furry crab example discovered near hydrothermal vents at bottom of ocean. The fur harbors, cultures filamentous bacteria in the spaces between it. Invertebrates are abundant ~1. 2-1. 7 million species have been catalogued. Estimated that there are ~8. 7 million species on earth. Of those, ~950,000 are animals, and of those, 95% are invertebrates! For humans as well as other organisms, both vertebrates and invertebrates. Invertebrates are also a great supply for medicine! Discovery of new medicinal and homeopathic compounds ex. Cone snail (in place of morphine), invertebrates that can be used for chemotherapy. Evolution of aging and sexual conflict, invasive species, neurobiology, population dynamics, hormone control of development. If it absorbs uv light, doesn"t mean that it gives uv vision.
