If you wish the privilege of making up a quiz, exam or a lab, you must speak with me before you miss the lab, exam or quiz in question. If you do not, I will consider your absence unexcused. You will not be allowed to make up missed work due to an unexcused absence. When do speak personally with me about the pending absence, we will decide when and where you will make the missed lab, exam or quiz. If you do not show up at the agreed time and place, I will assume you either did not want to make up the work or that you wanted a zero for the exam or quiz.
Quizzes occur with surprising regularity and the points they are worth add up.
Exams in this lab are called practicals and they involve sight-identification of specimens by the student. We might ask identification of phpyla, subphyla, class, etc., as well as body parts and things like that. Practicals take a lot of work to set up. Practical dates are predetermined. This will give you an idea of when the practicals will occur.