Animals Part 1
Channel: Michelle Carlson
Date: 2013-03-20

Covers the characteristics of kingdom animalia and the basic body plans.  Follows the major phyla in evolutionary complexity from the tissue-level organization to the cephalized bilateral organisms.  Also describes the development of body plans from a aceolomate lineage to a segmented eucoelomate lineage.  Covers phylum Porifera through Nematoda.  Representatives and their effect on humans are also covered briefly.