PURPOSE:  To complete library research for your assignments.  Throughout the semester, students will be given several organisms to draw that are representative of the major phyla we are studying.  They need to research each organism and provide information on their mode of obtaining energy, reproducing, ridding waste, etc.  Please review for research tips.

Your research assignment: Survey of Life Project and view list of organisms

RESEARCH TIPS

• Use Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia (Ref QL 7 G 79),print volumes shelved in the Cuyamaca Library Reference collection. 
   
• Use Academic: OneFile, an electronic database of journal articles, to find characteristics of your organism.

Type in subject words: Protists, plantae,

Domain Eukarya - Protista

Very diverse Eukaryotic organisms that are not plants, fungi or animals.Many single-celled species; mostly aerobic; autotrophic and heterotrophic. Examples: Flagellates, euglenoids, ciliates, diatoms, slime molds

Domain Eukarya - Plantae

Eukaryotic cells with walls containing cellulose; mostly aerobic; mostly autotrophic (photosynthesis); multicellular; mostly immobile. Examples: Mosses, ferns, pines, flowering plants

Domain Eukarya - Fungi

Eukaryotic cells with walls containing chitin; aerobic and anaerobic; mostly multicellular; heterotrophic (saprophytes and parasites) Examples: Sac and club fungi, molds, yeasts

Domain Eukarya - Animalia

Eukaryotic cells without cell walls; aerobic and rarely anaerobic; multicellular; heterotrophic  many possess nerve and muscle tissue. Examples: sponges, worms, mollusks, insects, vertebrates (fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals) 

WEBSITES

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/shapeoflife/

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/animal_names/phylogeny_ranks.html

http://www.herbarium.usu.edu/3400introduction.htm

http://www.tolweb.org/tree/home.pages/structure.html

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/alllife/eukaryotasy.html