ZOO 3050- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 43 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Zoology
• Course: ZOO 3050
• Professor: Andreas Heyland

Document Summary

March 2017: elevated cover slip mount: best method to observe live material under a microscope, clean slides with kimwipes. Common abbreviations on slide labels: w. m: whole mount, sec: section, c. s or x. s: cross section = transverse section, sag-sec: sagittal section, ser: serial, rep: representative, typ: typical, comp: composite. Laboratory equipment: your working tools for the course: two types of microscopes: compound and stereoscopic, use only clean lens paper to clean the eyepieces and objective lenses, no seawater should come in contact with objective lenses. Magnification: drawing magnification= drawing size/ actual size, compound lens magnification= 10. Using your microscopes i: a primer in histology. March 2017: embryonic, mesenchyme, mucoid, ordinary, loose, dense, special, cartilage, bone, blood, adipose. Muscular tissue: classification based on the functional property of contraction, distinguished by the relative amount and organization of the contractile proteins, actin and myosin, two types, smooth.