Students will be asked to make their own laboratory reports. No formal lab manual is required. Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy, A Laboratory Dissection Guide by Kenneth V. Kardong and Edward J. Zalisko, McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, USA. 2. Students are expected to attend classes regularly and should read the assigned chapters from the textbook for each unit before and after the classroom lecture period. The students will be asked to write reports on selected topics related to the course.
All assignments are due on time as determined by the instructor.
Students are required to keep and maintain a laboratory data notebook. They will be asked to work in assigned groups. Each group will be responsible for its own lab preparations, dissections and set-ups. Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy will focus on the structural, functional and phylogenetic relationships among chordates. A detailed study of protochordates and detailed dissection of the lamprey, shark, salamander and cat are included both in the lecture and laboratory sessions.