Camp's Zoology by the Numbers
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Camp's Zoology by the Numbers provides a succinct, yet comprehensive walk through the animal kingdom in study outline form. Camp's Biology by the Numbers guide series provide advanced high school students or college students with reliable, information-packed study tools that can save the reader from many hours of scouring dry textbooks. If you have a professor you can't understand, a need to develop deeper knowledge, or a means to better understand your subject, then these guides are for you.
Camp's Zoology by the numbers first provides a comprehensive look at the general anatomical layout and development of animals. From there, it walks through each taxa of animals, providing detailed study notes on the anatomy, reproduction, behavior, and significance of most classifications of protostome and deuterostome animals. This book is a visit to the zoo in book form.
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- Title Page
- Protostome Outline Table Of Contents
- SECTION 1: Animal Traits and Development
- A) General Animal Traits
- B) Animal Development
- C) Developmental Patterns and Body Plans
- SECTION 2: Primitive Protostome Phyla
- A) Phylum Porifera: Sponges
- B) Phylum Cnidaria: Jellyfish, Corals, and Allies
- C) Phylum Ctenophora: Comb Jellies
- SECTION 3: Triploblastic Protostome Ectodysozoan Invertebrates
- A) Ecydosozoan Traits
- B) Scalidophoran Invertebrates
- C) Phyla Nematoda and Nematomorpha: Roundworms and Horsehair Worms
- D) Phylum Onychophora: Velvet Worms
- E) Phylum Tardigrada: Water Bears
- F) Phylum Arthropoda: General Characteristics
- G) The Chelicerate Arthropods: Arachnids, Horseshoe Crabs, and Sea Spiders
- H) Class Insecta: The Insects
- I) Class Crustacea: The Crustaceans
- J) Sub-Phylum Myriapoda: Centipedes and Millipedes
- SECTION 4: Triploblastic Protostome Lophotrochozoan Invertebrates
- A) Lophotrochozoan Traits
- B) Clade Gnathofera, Phylum Rotifera: The Rotifers
- C) Clade Gnathofera, Phylum Chaetognatha: Arrow Worms
- D) Phylum Platyhelminthes: Flatworms
- E) Phylum Nemertea: Ribbon worms
- F) Phylum Annelida: Segmented Worms
- G) Phylum Echiura: Spoon Worms
- H) Phylum Sipunculata: Peanut Worms
- I) Phylum Mollusca: Snails, Chitons, Bivalves, and Cephalopods
- J) The Lophophorate Clade: The Misfits
- Outline Table Of Contents
- SECTION 1: Deuterostome Characteristics & Primitive Deuterostome Phyla
- A) General Characteristics of Deuterostomes
- B) Phylum Echinoderma: Starfish, Sea Urchins, and More
- C) Phylum Hemichordata: Acorn Worms
- SECTION 2: Chordate Characteristics and Primitive Chordate Phyla
- A) Chordate Characteristics
- B) Sub-Phylum Urochordata: Tunicates
- C) Sub-Phylum Cephalochordata: Lancelets
- SECTION 3: Sub-Phylum Vertebrata
- A) Vertebrate Characteristics
- B) Class Agnatha: Jawless Fishes
- C) Class Chondrichthyes: Cartilaginous Fish
- D) Class Osteichthyes: Bony Fish
- E) Class Amphibia: Amphibians
- F) Class Reptilia: Reptile Evolution and Prehistoric Taxa
- G) Class Reptilia: Extant Reptile Taxa
- H) Class Reptilia to Class Aves: The Link Between Dinosaurs and Birds
- I) Class Aves: Modern Birds
- J) Class Mammalia: Monotremes, Marsupials, and Placentals
- Authors Notes And Acknowledgments
- Glossary And Index
