 | Become familiar with the range of protist groups and their significance in eukaryote
evolution |
| Know the major morphological features of protist groups |
| Know life cycles of the major groups of protists |
| Understand the role of symbiosis as it applies to the evolution of protists,
particularly with regard to the origin of mitochondria and chloroplasts. |
| Be able to critically evaluate evidence relating to symbiotic origins of mitochondria
and chloroplasts. |
| Be able to read a phyletic tree (phylogram) properly assessing relationships between
various data points.
 | Understand a simple method for construction of phylogenetic trees by cluster analysis. |
| Understand the relation between similarity in traits or molecular sequence and phyletic
relatedness and the assumptions underlying this relationship. |
| Be able to make inferences from phyletic trees concerning problems in protist evolution. |
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| Be able to assess the nature and significance of adaptations of protists to various
environments:
| planktonic |
| endozoic |
| benthic or soil |
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| Understand the changes in cell organizaton and regulation related to the development of
greater cell size.
| Eukaryotes from prokaryotes |
| large eukaryotes from small |
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| Be able to effectively setup and use a light microscope |
| Be able to make accurate well-labeled drawings of microscopic specimens |
| be able to reconstruct three dimensional structures through study of a series of images
in several focal planes. |
| Recognize and identify any protist to group. |
| Recognize and identify specimens seen in the laboratory to group, subgroup and genus. |
| Recognize life cycle stages when appropriate. |
| Recognize and interpret major structural features of protists as appropriate for each
group. |
| Collect and analyze quantitative laboratory data, making inferences from data and
formulating hypotheses to be tested. |
| Make accurate and appropriately scaled graphs showing relationship between experimental
variables. |
| Understand the importance of making simple conceptual models in analysis of quantitative
data |
| Gain some experience in use of a computer simulation model in analysis of complex
quantitative data |
| Be able to prepare a formal laboratory report. |