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Apr 25, 2024
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BIOEE 4700 - Herpetology, Lectures Spring (offered alternate years). 2 credits. Letter grades only (S/U grades with permission of instructor).
Recommended prerequisite: BIOEE 2740 . Enrollment limited to: 50 students.
K. Zamudio.
Lectures cover various aspects of the biology of amphibians and reptiles, including evolution, zoogeography, ecology, behavior, and physiology.
Outcome 1: Students will acquire knowledge of the major groups of amphibians and reptiles, with respect to their main diagnostic characteristics.
Outcome 2: Students will be able to move freely back and forth between classifications and evolutionary trees of amphibians and reptiles on a global basis.
Outcome 3: Students will be able to synthesize, integrate, and discuss details of morphology, ecology, behavior, and physiology for major lineages of amphibians and reptiles.
Outcome 4: Students will have a working familiarity with the characteristics that distinguish ~50 species of amphibians and reptiles, including primarily those found in NY, as well as construct a key to an initially unknown fauna.
Outcome 5: Students will be able to think integratively and synthetically about the biology and future of amphibians and reptiles on a global and local basis.
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