Monday, November 10, 2014

Biodiversity II


Materials
  1. Porifera-preserved sponges
  2. Gymnosperms-needle leaves and cones, pollen slide
  3. Angiosperms- live flower, fruit examples, and tap root from carrot
  4. Zygomycetes- live culture of bread mold, slide of mycelia, hyphae, and zygospores
  5. Basidiomycetes- mushroom specimens and spicules
  6. Cnidaria-preserved jellyfish- medusa stage, coral- polyp stage only, live hydra, slide-hydra colony (polyp stage)
  7. Platyhelminthes- planaria-live culture, tapeworm slide
  8. Annedlia- preserved earthworm
  9. Arthropoda- horseshoe crab shell, preserved spiders and ticks, crab shells, insect
  10. Echinoderms- starfish, sea urchin, sand dollar
  11. Chordata- amphixious preserved specimen, amphioxus slide- notochord, nerve cord, and gill slits
  12. Fish- preserved fish, shark
  13. Amphibia- frog skeleton
  14. Reptilia- snake skeleton, other reptile skeletons
  15. Mammalia- cat skeleton, study sking, mount
  16. Aves- pigeon skeleton, study skin, mount-great horned owl
  17. Light Microscop
Exercises
  1. Examine each respective slide and record findings
  2. Take notes