Lecture Schedule

Read the material online by clicking on the topic and assess your understanding with the corresponding games and quizzes.

For each lecture/week:

you can find a Powerpoint slide presentation. To print slides as handouts, select 4 or 6 slides /page, black & white and double-sided, in the printer settings.
The learning outcomes/review sheets can be found by clicking on the lecture main title
PDFs of the textbook, separated for weekly readings and printing are available here (courtesy of Prof. M. Gotesman).

Table of Contents

Week 1

Game 1a
Game 1b

Table of Contents

Sections 18.1 20.1 20.2 (also see 1.2, 47.1 & 47.2)

Week 2

 Game 2a

Game 2b

Chap. 21 & 22

Week 3

Game 3

Chap. 23

Week 4

Game 4

EXAM 1 (Classification, Viruses, Bacteria & Archaea and Protists)

Chap. 24

Week 5

Game 5

Chap. 25

Week 6

Game 6

Chap. 26 & 30
+Sections 31.3 32.1 32.2

Week 7

Game 7a

Game 7b

EXAM 2 (The Fungi and Plants: Evolution, Diversity and Reproduction)

Introduction to Animals and their Classification: level of organization, type of symmetry, type of coelom, segmentation and embryology, protostomes and deuterostomes
Overview of Animal Phyla: Invertebrates and Vertebrates

Sections 27.1, 27.2, 27.3

Chap. 28

Section 29.1

Week 8

The Human Body 101