Animal Form and Function

Alyssa teaches a dissection class every winter semester.  Each class session focuses on a different group of animals, usually with another unifying theme such as movement, metamerism, or adaptive radiation.  In most of those classes, Alyssa supplements the official course material with a selection of videos, images, and accompanying stories about unusual or interesting representatives from the groups the students dissected that day.  These are those supplemental materials.

All images from Wikimedia Commons.

1. Cnidarians and flatworms

 

2. Mollusks

3. Annelids and Nematodes

4. Crustaceans

5. Chelicerates

6. Insects

7. Echinoderms and Chordates

8. Vertebrates