Read pages 1-2, 10 (1-1b), 16, 29 (1-6), and 38-42 in Sherman and Sherman

Living Materials:

Amoeba (will be distributed individually by either the course technician or your TAs; under no circumstances should you try to obtain your own preparation)

Insects to be pinned out for examination using the Wild M-5

Diatomaceous earth for strew.

Prepared Slides: Be sure to take only one at a time from the box on your table.

Exercises:

1-1 through 1-4

1-6, iii & iv

Follow instructions on page 38-42.

Course Web Site: Sometime during your three hour laboratory, your TA will take you from the BISC 306 laboratory to a departmental computer facility. Here, you will be instructed on how to log on to the course web site and find the information available there which may not otherwise available to you in your text(s), laboratory or lecture material. You will also be shown how to use the site's icon links to about sixty invertebrate research sites.