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COURSE  OUTLINE

                   INVERTEBRATES 24267

Instructor:Sami Bdair

Text Book:Invertebrate zoology by D.T.Anderson

Lab text:  The invertebrates:Function and Form

Introduction.

The Protozoa:

                      Phylum Mastigophora.

                      Phylum Ciliophora

                      Phylum Sporozoa

                      Phylum sarcodina

Origin and evolution of Metazoans

The Sponges

                   Physiology

                   Classes of sponges

                   Reproduction

The Cnidarians and Ctenophores.

                    Cnidarian histology and physiology

                    Class Hydrozoa

                    Class Scyphozoa

                    Class Anthozoa

          The Ctenophores

The Flatworms

                       Class Turbellaria

                       Class Trematoda

                       Class Cestoda

The Ashelminthes

                            Phylum Nematoda

                            Phylum Gastrotricha

                            Phylum Rotifera

  The Annelids

                        Class Polychaeta

                        Class Oligochaeta

                        Class Hirudina

The Mollusks

                     Class Gastropoda

                         Class Monoplacophora

                         Class Polyplacophora

                         Class APlacophora

                         Class Bivalvia

                         Class Scaphopoda

                         Class Cephalopoda

Arthropoda

                          Class Crustacea

                          Class Myriapoda

                          Class Insecta

                          Class Arachnida

Echinodermata

                           Class Asteroidea

                           Class Echinoidea

                           Class Holothroidea

                           Class Crinoidea

Grades:

                    Ist  exam:20%

                    2^ndexam:20%

                    Lab         :25%

                    Final exam:35%

                                                   GOOD LUCK