Plant sciences or botany! No biological science has transformed society more than the successive waves of agricultural revolutions. It started with the domestication of cereal crops - wheat, rice and corn.
Flatworms, with their 3 clearly defined cell layers and bilateral symmetry, represent an important advance in early animal evolution. This program provides detailed observations on structure, behaviour and their life cycles.
The diversity of rotifers is stunning, and this program shows many different species.
The phylum Mollusca is filled with wonderfully adapted soft-bodied creatures that make up four major classes.
Phylum Annelida is made up of segmented worms divided into 3 classes: Subclass Oligochaetes such as Tubifex, Class Polychaetes such as Nereis and thousands of other species that live in almost all marine habitats & Leeches.
They are armoured creatures with jointed legs and they have developed elaborate behaviour patterns that assure survival. They are also the most successful phylum in the animal kingdom - phylum Arthropoda.
They have spiny skins, internal skeletons and elaborate hydraulic systems used in locomotion and food getting - and they all live in the sea.
Sponges are one of the more colourful and abundant groups of animals, yet they are generally poorly known by students of biology.
The program begins with an in-depth study of Hydra, its feeding methods, stinging cells, reproduction by budding, and its sex life.
The goal of this program is to show a representative sample of the great diversity of protists, and to show why they need a new classification reflecting our growing understanding of their long evolutionary history.
Phylum Chordata evolved in ancient seas over 530 million years ago as shown by fossils (Pikaia) discovered in the Burgess Shales.
This program introduces students to four organisms we call the Biology Classics, Paramecium, Hydra Planaria & Daphnia. Studying these “classics” broadens our concept of what it means to be alive.