Read pages 2-37 in Sherman and Sherman
Living Materials: Chilomonas Blepharisma Spirostomum Vorticella Paramecium Euglena Chlamydomonas Volvox Trichonympha (termite gut)
Gregarines (meal worm intestines) Prepared Slides: Be sure to take only one at a time from the box on your table of the following:Class Sarcodina
Amoeba
Arcella ~ the armored amoeba
Arcella
Test of Arcella
Heliozoan with extended axopodia
TEM through axopodium revealing coiled
microtubule support structure
Flourescence of symbiontic zooxanthellae
living with a heliozoan
Radiolarian test
Tests from representative foraminiferans
Light microscope photo of foraminiferan test
Foraminiferan with expanded reticulopodia
Pink sand beach formed by tests
of the foraminiferan
Homotrema rubra and coral.
The sessile foraminiferan Homotrema
rubra with expanded reticulopodia.Class Flagellata
Euglena
Colonial Volvox
SEM of dinoflagellate test
The complex termite gut symbiont Trichonympha
An unidentified termite gut symbiont
covered with nitrogen fixing bacteria
Class Ciliatea
Pellicular System
Paramecium
Paramecium SEM
Stalked, sessile ciliates (Vorticella)
SEM of ciliate
Sexual reproduction in ParameciumClass Suctoria
Class Sporozoa
Trypanosoma blood parasite
Another life phase (merozoite) of malarial blood parasite
Malarian life cycle between mosquito & man.
Exercises: 1-1 through 1-4, 1-6, iii &iv.
PHYLUM PORIFERA
Read pages 43-52; 57; 59-73 in Sherman & Sherman
Class Calcaria
Class Hexactinellida
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