BIOEE 4761

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BIOEE 4761
Biology of Fishes, Laboratory

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.

Laboratory course covering topics presented in BIOEE 4760, Biology of Fishes, Lectures.

When Offered Fall.

Fees Small lab fee may be required.
Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite or corequisite:  BIOEE 4760.

Comments Two field trips, including one full-day weekend trip required.  Live animals are studied in the field and are sometimes used in the laboratory for nondestructive demonstrations or experiments.  The systematics and dissection laboratories use preserved speciments.

Outcomes
  • Students will understand the organismal biology of fishes, including their structure, physiology, functional morphology, and behavior.
  • Students will be able to use their knowledge of fishes in any basic research or applied context.
  • Students will understand the evolutionary history of fishes and phylogenetic interpretation based on morphological and molecular study.
  • Students will be able to interpret phylogenies and use tree thinking in the service of any kind of biological research field.
  • Students will become familiar with the taxonomy and phenotypic diversity of the world's fishes as well as human-induced challenges to that diversity.
  • Through study of the local fish fauna, students will be able to apply the tools of fish identification to learn a new fauna in any region of the world.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Stdnt Opt

  • 16501 BIOEE 4761   LAB 401

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  • Prerequisite or co-requisite: BIOEE 4760. Small lab fee may be required. Enrollment limited to 24. Letter grades only, S-U grades with permission of instructor. Two field trips, including one full-day weekend trip required. Live animals are studied in the field are sometimes used in the laboratory for nondestructive demonstrations or experiments. The systematics and dissection labs use preserved specimens.