FAOV3 – Links to Download PowerPoint Lecture Presentations

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This material is distributed free, and I make no promises or warranties about it. You will need Microsoft PowerPoint or other compatible software to open and view the downloaded files.

I use these presentations in my own teaching, and I have experimented with different ways to organize them. Presentations available here are organized by chapter in the 3rd edition of Functional Anatomy of the Vertebrates. Just click on a chapter with an underlined hyperlink to download its Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt) file to your computer. More presentations will be added during Fall 2003 until the set is complete. Most, but not all, numbered figures from the 3rd edition of Functional Anatomy of the Vertebrates will be available from these PowerPoint presentations. If you need a figure from the 3rd edition that you do not find here, or need a particular figure scaled to a different resolution, then contact Willy at: wbemis@bio.umass.edu. I will do my best to help you but make no promises in advance.

Each slide in a presentation consists of a numbered figure from the 3rd edition (inserted as .jpg with maximum dimensions of 1024 pixels x 768 pixels) and some text layers added in PowerPoint. This makes the presentations easy to customize – and I encourage you to do this.

These images look best when viewed with an XGA projector (i.e., one that is able to display 1024 x 768 pixels). If the figures “pixelate” or seem to scale incorrectly when you project them, then the resolution of the inserted .jpg image may be too high for your projector.

Part I Background for the Study of Vertebrate Anatomy

1 Introduction (18.5 MB)

2 Phylogenetic Relationships of Chordates and Craniates (13 MB)

3 Diversity and Phylogenetic History of Craniates (11 MB)

4 Early Development and Comparative Embryology (13.6 MB)

5 Form and Function (2.7 MB)

Part II Protection, Support, and Movement

6 The Integument (4.4 MB)

7 The Cranial Skeleton (11.5 MB)

8 The Postcranial Skeleton: The Axial Skeleton (6.5 MB)

9 The Postcranial Skeleton: The Appendicular Skeleton (4 MB)

10 The Muscular System (5.9 MB)

11 Functional Anatomy of Support and Locomotion (7 MB)

Part III Integration

12 The Sense Organs (6.5 MB)

13 The Nervous System I: Organization, Spinal Cord, and Peripheral Nerves (6.8 MB)

14 The Nervous System II: The Brain (4.6 MB)

15 Endocrine Integration (5.4 MB)

Part IV Metabolism and Reproduction

16 The Digestive System: Oral Cavity and Feeding Mechanisms (5.5 MB)

17 The Digestive System: Pharynx, Stomach, and Intestine (2.7 MB)

18 The Respiratory System (5.6 MB)

19 The Circulatory System (6 MB)

20 The Excretory System and Osmoregulation (3.4 MB)

21 The Reproductive System and Reproduction (8.9 MB)

Part V Conclusion

22 Epilogue (2.4 MB)

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