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Friday, March 1, 2013

Animalia Assignment

create a table describing the life processes (like feeding, respiration, circulation, response to env, getting rid of waste, interacting with other organisms, habitat, etc)

platyhelminthese:  tapeworm planaria
cnidaria:  obelia, hydra, scyphozoa, sea anemone
nematoda:  hookworm, ascaris
molluska:  squid, clam/oyster/scallop, snail

arthropoda:  horseshoe crab, spider, crab, grasshopper
echinodermata:  sea urchin, sea star

This is due second last day of class before spring break

select animalia notes

molluska notes
flatworms and roundworms
kingdom animalia
cnidaria and porifera
Some notes on arthropoda

And Dr. Wayne Maddison's jumping spider video:  click on the picture below

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

You Animal!

intro to kingdom animalia.  there will be a 10 mark quiz next period on the contents of these notes up to the section on endoderm, ectoderm and mesoderm

intro to cnidaria and porifera
Today we will review key concepts in kingdom Animalia and look at sections of earthworm and ascaris to compare the body plans of these animals.  You will discover whether you are a protostome or deuterstome.

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Welcome back. Beaty museum and Protozoa notes

For those who didn't make it for the Beaty trip the first time, here is your second chance to go on the trip: BEATY MUSEUM FIELD TRIP JAN 15 CONSENT FORM.

Today we went over Kingdom protista.  Notes are here.

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Consent Form For the Beaty Museum and Sustainable Building Tour

Reminders for next weeks events:

Monday: microbiology quiz.  this includes notes as well as information in the disease slide presentation
Wednesday:  field trip to UBC.  Download the consent form
Friday:  Microbial wine and cheese AND virus/bacteria model due.

Our field trip:
We will meet at the CK Choi building and do a walkabout in and around the building.  Microbes are used to take care of the waste in this building.Next, we will proceed to the CIRS building and then make our way to the Beaty museum so we may enter at 10am when it opens.  The Beaty Museum is a research collection of biodiversity. It is like a library.  It's primary purpose is archival. The public is invited to come and take a peek at the specimens.  The flagship specimen is a huge blue whale skeleton collected from the shores of Prince Edward Island.

Monday, December 10, 2012

Quiz on Microbiology: December 17th

based on the microbiology notes and disease slideshow.  this is our last quiz of 2012!

Disease activity

slideshow on disease for our Centre for Disease Control activity:  


Next day we will be doing the CDC activity.  Here are useful links:

Very generalized differences between viral and bacterial infections

A list of bacterial pathogens and viral pathogens (note the error under viral pathogens: botulism is not a viral disease - gov't of australia website made a mistake here!). some of the pathogens are particular to Australia, but others are common worldwide (such as measles, meningitis, salmonella, influenza).  These sites are easy to navigate.

 a more comprehensive list of viral pathogens .  this list is undergraduate level.


CASE STUDIES
Airborne Diseases

            Preventing airborne diseases case study: a viral airborne disease (SARS)

Managing an airborne disease case study:  a bacterial airborne disease (TB)


STI: 


dine safe website: a comprehensive list of health inspection reports for any restaurant!

Animal vector:
            Vertebrates mainly :

Insect vector: note only the ones caused by virus and bacteria:

Waterborne: