BIOL 514 - Invertebrate Zoology

(3 hours) Prerequisites: Admission to the MS Program. This course is designed to discuss in depth the most speciose, morphologically diverse and ecologically heterogeneous group of animals on the planet. Invertebrates comprise at least 95% of all known animals. From their numbers and diversity alone, it is obviously that invertebrates are very important. They are food for humans and other animals, they cause disease, they pollinate most of the plants we need and use, they affect global climate, some are important with respect to medicine, etc. Note: This course cannot be challenged.