Access to On-Line Course Materials

Some of the course materials, including this page, remain open to the general public.

However, many of the online materials for ZO 150 versions that are taught in Summer and Fall terms and as a Distance Education course have been moved to the WebCT site.
Only enrolled students and course staff have automatic access to those materials. If you want to request special access, contact me by mouse-clicking my E-mail address below:
s_mozley@ncsu.edu
In your message, explain your need for access and provide your N. C. State userid (Unity ID). I cannot give access to off-campus people.

Transfer Equivalents to ZO 150

Few other college courses are close enough to the content of ZO 150 to transfer as a substitution in N. C. State curricula.

However, the N. C. Community College system's BIO 130 is specified as equivalent by the Articulation Agreement between that system and the UNC system.

Any equivalent course must carry 4 hours of college semester credit, including a laboratory in which knowledge of the classification and anatomical contrasts among at least 10 of the more diverse animal phyla is required.
If you have completed such a course with a grade of C- or better but did not receive transfer credit when you were admitted to N. C. State, you may apply for transfer equivalency by presenting a syllabus of the course for review by the Zoology Department.

ZO 150 requires completion of one year of high school biology or one semester of college introductory biology with a grade of C- or better before enrolling. Although it has a relatively low level prerequisite and carries a 100 level number, it is not an elementary course and requires substantial study time from most students to learn the large number of taxonomic names and anatomical terms.
ZO 150 is prerequisite to ZO 250 and several other Zoology courses at the 300 and 400 levels, particularly ZO 402 and ZO 403.
ZO 150 or the equivalent is required of all Zoology and Environmental Science-Ecology majors.

If you are enrolled in ZO 150, these are some things you should know.

The classification of animals used in ZO 150 differs in large and small ways from those presented in most textbooks and zoology courses prior to 2002.
There are always questions about which animal taxa students must learn for this class.
This site lists the names and arrangements presented in and covered by ZO 150 in fall and summer semesters and the cable TV and videotaped versions. Students taking ZO 150 in the classroom in spring semesters should check Dr. Heatwole's Web site for any additions or deletions from this list.

Many links to other Web pages about zoology, arranged by taxonomic groups such as phylum, class, or order.
Maintained by the BIOSIS index to biological publications and the Zoological Society of London.
Associated with the periodical publication "Zoological Record."

Offers a traditional, partly phylogenetic classification of animal phyla in the link to "Animal Diversity Web."
Linked to many of the phyla are Web pages describing their important characteristics.
From phylum pages, there are often further links that continue the classification down to order, have pictures of representative species, and even detailed articles on the habitats, zoogeography, evolution, etc. of some taxa.

Exhibits and articles on geologic time, phylogeny and evolutionary theories.
Intended for the educated public, this large site includes almost a textbook's worth of information about zoology.

Last revised in 2000, with many fundamental changes in the part on kingdoms of life.

Summarizes the current state of understanding of the phylogeny of living things in general.

The authors of this site are planning major revisions to their overall phylogeny of animals.

Their current display still follows the concepts of Brusca and Brusca (1990), which most systematists consider to be incorrect.

References to the sources of these phylogenies and other major, related articles in the scientific literature are given at the bottom of each page.
Founded by David R. Maddison and Wayne P. Maddison at the University of Arizona in 1996.
David J. Patterson (University of Sydney, Australia) and Mitchell L. Sogin (Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA) are currently leading the revision of eukaryote phylogeny for the site.

This "Integrated Taxonomic Information System" is a global effort, involving several United States government agencies, to provide a generally acceptable classification of living things.
The link to "Data Access" from the ITIS home page will allow you to select a listing of all currently accepted phyla, classes, orders, and families of animals.
Us eit with caution, however, because it has several serious discrepancies with the current position of most animal systematists

For example, it includes some very old and outdated versions of protozoan classification within the kingdom Animalia!

Authored by Graham Davison of the University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
Last updated in 1999.
A good source of "information about the body structure, growth, development, reproduction and ecology ... of all of the currently described metazoan phyla."
Includes a link to a discussion of evolutionary relationships among animals, not all of which I agree with.

This page is nothing but links to other Web pages about invertebrate animals and societies of scientists working on them, last updated in February, 2000.
It is maintained by the University of Maine for the Division of Invertebrate Zoology (DIZ), Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

This site leads to information about undergraduate internships and research opportunities, as well as employers and job searching.

Maintained by Sam Mozley (Click to send E-mail)

Last modified October 31, 2003