Description
You can choose an ecosystem and feeding levels from the attached instructions. For this assignment, You will use what you’ve learned in class to design an animal that can thrive in the assigned conditions. You will then create a slideshow of similar structures on existing animals and discuss the advantages conferred by your chosen structures by “scripting” the presentation in the notes of the slideshow. You must represent all the ways your animal is adapted to life in the prescribed ecosystem and feeding level. As with the create-a-plant assignment, you will be required to have a visual representation of your created animal. Your design must be functional, so you need to provide valid justification for your design choices. This is best accomplished by using the principals and concepts you learn in class. Therefore, it is important to focus on these features as you work through the animal labs. Don’t copy an animal you have seen or one that you know exists – come up with a unique combination of characteristics that will help your organism survive and thrive in its habitat.
BIO 1500 Create-an-Animal Assignment
For this assignment, you will be assigned an ecosystem/habitat and feeding level for an animal. You will use what you’ve learned in class to design an animal that can thrive in the assigned conditions. You will then create a slideshow of similar structures on existing animals and discuss the advantages conferred by your chosen structures by “scripting” the presentation in the notes of the slideshow.
You must represent all the ways your animal is adapted to life in the prescribed ecosystem and feeding level. As with the create-a-plant assignment, you will be required to have a visual representation of your created animal.
Your design must be functional, so you need to provide valid justification for your design choices. This is best accomplished by using the principals and concepts you learn in class. Therefore, it is important to focus on these features as you work through the animal labs.
Don’t copy an animal you have seen or one that you know exists – come up with a unique combination of characteristics that will help your organism survive and thrive in its habitat.
Your lab instructor will randomly assign a set of conditions from the following:
To receive full credit for this assignment you must describe adaptations of your created animal related to each the following:
Grading:
Adaptations appropriately addressed: 6 points
Appropriate use of assigned conditions: 2 points
Name included: 1 point
Image of organism: 1 point
Total: 10 points
Ecosystems:
Feeding/Tropic Levels:
Marine – oceanic (open ocean)
Herbivore
Marine – neritic (shore)
Carnivore
Aquatic – limnetic (deep water)
Omnivore
Aquatic – littoral (shore)
Parasite
Terrestrial – temperate forest
Scavenger
Terrestrial – tropical rainforest
Filter-feeder
Terrestrial – grassland
Terrestrial – wetlands
• Food acquisition and digestion
• Respiration
• Locomotion
• Circulatory/metabolism
• Sensory
• Support (floating, standing, etc.)
Objectives
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Know the features that distinguish:
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Deuterostomes from protostomes
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Chordates from other deuterostomes
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Vertebrates from other chordates
Deuterostomes
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Echinoderms and
Chordates
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Represent < of
all animals
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Possess an
endoskeleton
derived from
mesoderm
Phylum Echinodermata
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Sea stars, sea urchins, sand dollars, sea
cucumbers, brittle starts and crinoids
