BIO 105
Students:
Here's
some stuff for you! Click on an area that you want to know more
about.
Study
Helps: Specific
- Handout(s) you should print
out
- Supplementary Material:
visualizations
and handouts pertaining to specific lecture sessions:
- Sea Floor: Ocean
Basins, Plate Tectonics
lecture
- Physicochemical
Properties of Seawater lecture
- Water
Motion,
Ocean Currents, Climate lectures
- The
Business
of Life lecture
- Biology
and the Microbial World
- Multicellular
Primary Producers (Seaweeds & Plants)
- Seaweeds
- Protistans? Plants? Something else?
- Flowering
Plants
- Marine
Animal
Diversity lectures:
invertebrates and vertebrates
- Marine Mammal Origins & Biology
- Warm Earth
Origins
- 65 mya to 20 mya on the shores of the Tethys Sea - Egypt and Pakistan to
Alabama
- Pakicetus -
hunting rich fish
shoals in the ancient, tropical Tethys Sea
- Ambulocetus natans - the "walking whale that swims"
- Basilosaurus -
fossilized vertebrae
used as doorstops in Alabama, ancient whale named "emperor lizard."
- Manatee
and calf
- mermaids? Virtually unchanged from the Tethyan form for
30+ million years
- Cold Earth
Origins
- 20 mya to present. Antarctica continent blocks warm
currents from tropics, heat is lost, earth is cooled. Marine
mammals arise in temperate or cold regions
- Biology of Whales
- Biology of Seals and Sea
Lions
- Marine Mammals the
dominant top carnivores or predators in cold arctic waters and in cold
temperate waters.
- Introduction to Ecology & Marine
Habitat
- Between the Tides
- Estuaries
- Life on the Continental Shelf
- Coral Reef Ecology
- Epipelagic Communities
- Epipelagic Food Webs and Productivity
- Deep Ocean Communities
Some questions to
consider
as
you study
for exams in BIO 105 (includes review activities you can do at your
home
or on really boring dates - J.C. Bundy, Jr. suggestion):
- Post-Exam Information:
Study
Helps: General
Some
web pages on the Internet to check out:
Scientific Method
Plate Tectonics
Hydrothermal Vents and
Associated
Living Communities
Properties of Water
- University
of Arizona Biology Project - Accessisble
tutorial
on the water molecule and why it does what it does (the secret is
polarity).
Water dissolving sodium chloride (salt) is also shown
Basic Cell Biology: Prokaryotes
and
Eukaryotes
Phylogeny: Evolutionary History
of
Species
Domains of Life:
Archaea
Bacteria
Cyanobacteria
Eukaryota
The Microbial World:
Unicellular
Algae - Diatoms, Dinoflagellates, Coccolithophorids
University
of California, Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology -
Tutorial on the Diatoms, the dominant producer organism of the cooler
oceans.
Monterey
Bay Aquarium Research Institute - Photogallery of
diatoms.
University
of California, Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology -
Tutorial on the Dinoflagellata, 2 flagellated "switch hitters" often
equally
adept at plant nutrition and animal nutrition. Dominant in the
warmer
to tropical oceans.
Monterey
Bay Aquarium Research Institute - Photogallery of
dinoflagellates.
University
of Calgary, Canada - More info on the Dinoflagellata, 2
flagellated "switch hitters."
University
of California, Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology
- Tutorial on the coccolithophorids, often in significant numbers
in tropical oceans.
Toby
Tyrrell Home Page, noted coccolithophorid researcher -
Extensive satellite pictures, etc. of most common coccolithophorid,
Emiliana
huxleyi.
Protozoans -
Foraminifera,
Radiolaria, Ciliata
University
of California, Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology
- Tutorial on the foraminifera, significant benthic forms and
occasionally
found in the plankton.
University
of California, Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology -
Tutorial
on the radiolaria, significant planktonic forms and especially common
in
the tropics.
University
of California, Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology -
Tutorial
on the ciliates, significant protozoan planktonic forms.
Multicellular Primary Producers:
Flowering
Plants
State
of Queensland, Australia, Environmental Protection Agency
-
Tutorial on the occurrence and importance of mangrove swamp forests.
Soft Bodied
Invertebrates
- Annelid (segmented) Worms
Chordates
