Course focuses on the gross dissections all major clades of vertebrates: development, form, and diversity of organ systems and basic principles of evolution; vertebrate classification; and functional morphology, with emphasis on feeding and locomotion. Anatomical dissections integrated with the associated lecture material focusing on biomechanics, form, and function.
Enrollment Requirements
Prerequisite(s): BIOL 20A and BIOE 20B and BIOE 20C. Concurrent enrollment in BIOE 134 is required.
Class Notes
All students - If you completed the prerequisites but get an error message - email your proof of prerequisite material to the instructor for approval to enroll - Rita Mehta, rmehta2@ucsc.edu. If you are enrolled in the prerequisite in Session 1, email summer@ucsc.edu for a permission number to enroll.