Specimen Availability List – Bio 1A Lab Practical
Use this specimen availability list to fill out your practical request list. CLEARLY SPECIFY # NEEDED, CONDITION
(live/fresh killed/preserved, etc.), AND SEX (if applicable). Other items may be available; if you would like something that is
not on the list, ask and we will try to get it.
Lab Exercise
INVERTEBRATES
Specimens available
Conditions available
Hydra
live, slides
Sea Anemone
live
Jellyfish
preserved
Planaria
live, slides
Platyhelminthes
Tapeworm
preserved
Liver fluke
preserved, plastic mount
Earthworm
live, fresh killed
Leech
live, preserved
Annelida
Tubifex worms
live
Pile worms (Nereis)
live
Feather duster worm
live, preserved
Clam
live, fresh dissected, preserved dissected, shells
Mussels
live, shells
Snails
live, shells
Chitons
live, preserved, shells/plates
Mollusca
Squid
preserved dissected mount
Nautilus
plastic mount (shell), picture
Octopus
preserved
Cuttlefish
preserved
Starfish
live, fresh dissected, preserved dissected mount, dried
Brittle stars
dried skeleton
Echinodermata
Urchin
live, dried skeleton
Sand dollar
dried skeleton
Sea cucumber
live
Cockroaches (American)
live, fresh killed (specify sex)
Giant hissing roaches
live
Fruitflies
live, fresh killed, slides
Termites
live
Crickets
live
Butterfly
development display
Dragonfly
fossil cast
Various insects
Dried (can be displayed individually
Millipede
live, dried
Arthropoda
Tarantula
live, dried exoskeleton
Scorpion
live, dried
Crayfish
live, fresh killed (specify sex), preserved dissected mount
Crab
live, preserved, dried
Shrimp
live
Brine shrimp
live
Horseshoe crab
Dried
Barnacle
Live(possibly), preserved
Trilobite
fossil cast
VERTEBRATE ANATOMY
Sheep pluck
fresh (whole or dissected)
Heart
fresh dissected (sheep), plastic model (human), preserved (calf)
Rat skeleton
mounted
Sphygmomanometer & stethoscope
Cnidaria
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Specimen Availability List – Bio 1A Lab Practical
Lab Exercise
Specimens available
Conditions available
REPRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT
Pregnant rat
fresh (whole or dissected)
Rat embryos
section of uterus with embryos, preserved (cleared & stained)
Chicken egg
hardboiled
Chick embryo
preserved
Sea urchin eggs
photos (fertilized & unfertilized)
Xenopus embryos
preserved (vials of different stages)
Xenopus tadpoles
preserved (cleared & stained)
VERTEBRATE DIVERSITY
NOTE: Some live animals are available.
Skins and mounts may be available but must be borrowed.
Collections of pictures and drawings for the different classes will be available in both rooms.
If there was a diagram, or picture, available for the lab then it is probably available for your lab exam.
Following are material lists that we have or are generally available to borrow. Items mark with an “*” must be borrowed from
another department. Specify what you would like to have and we will try to get it. We’ll let you know as soon as possible if we
can get them.
MAMMAL STATIONS
Whale Vertebrae
Gray Whale Rib
Cow Skull
Deer Skull
Mole Skeleton
Insectivorous Bat Skeleton
Fruit Bat Skeleton
Monkey Skeleton
Rat Skeleton
Baleen
Sea lion skull
Human Skeleton*
Scaly Anteater
Nine-Banded Armadillo*
FISH STATIONS
Preserved Bony Fish (in liquid)
Cleared and Stained Fish
Dried Seahorse
Dried Pufferfish
Perch Skeleton
Skate Jaw
Pharyngeal Jaw
Preserved Shark
Preserved Lamprey
Perch dissected liquid mount
Shark Dissected liquid mount
Fish Diversity liquid mount
Skate plastic mount
Osteicthyes Skull*
Osteicthyes Vertebrae*
Gar Skeleton*
UROCHORDATE
Tuncate (live)
Tuncate pictures
CEPHALOCHORDATE
Lancelet dissection mount
Lancelet, preserved
Lancelet slide w.m.
BIRD STATIONS
Pigeon Skeleton
Bird Nests
Owl Pellet
Feathers
Chicken Skeleton*
Bird Feet Board*
AMPHIBIAN/REPTILE STATIONS
White's Tree Frog (live)
Red-Eyed Tree Frog (live)
Axolotl (live)
Northwestern Salamander (live)
Snakes (live) (Ball python, Rosy boa)
Shingleback Skink (live)
Tokay Gecko (live)
Preserved Gecko
Preserved Ceacilian
Turtle shell
Dried turtle
Bullfrog skeleton
Necturus skeleton
Alligator skeleton
Snake skin
Snake egg shells
Snake skeleton
Python skull
Archaeopteryx fossil cast
Ramphorhynchus fossil cast
Cleared and Stained Newts
Cleared and Stained Frogs
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Specimen Request List – Bio 1A Lab Practical
Most of the lab material will be available. Some Vertebrate Diversity material may be unavailable. Our goal is to have the lab
exams go smoothly. This requires planning and organization, especially on your part. Remember you are only setting up one
or two lab exams but the Bio 1A staff is setting up 10.
1) Most of the preserved (liquid and dry) displays are available for your use.
2) All of the prepared slides will be available in each room.
3) We need to know what you need at each station. For example we need to know what animals you need and what
structures you want to identify (if any). You may want something alive. We need to know!
4) The materials we have borrowed (mainly the Diversity lab) may or may not be available and we will have to let you
know if we can get them.
Specimen request sheet: I have provided an example below- it does not correspond to any particular exam, it is made up. A
corresponding blank sheet is on the next page. Fill this out once you have written your exam. Refer to the specimen availability list
to see what’s available.
1: REST STATION
16: Rat skeleton: A) femur B) mandible C) scope with ovary slide D)
scope with testis slide
2: A) Hydra B) Planaria C) Preserved Jellyfish
D) Hydra cross section slide
17: REST STATION
3: dissected earthworm pin A on supra-pharyngeal ganglion, pin B on
nephrida, pin C on spermatheca
18: Heart Model: A) left atrium B) right ventricle C) aorta D) left
ventricle
4: A) microscope 1 of cross section earthworm and microscope 2 of
cross section of earthworm pointer on tyhlosole B) dead whole
earthworm C) Alive Leech and preserved tapeworm
19: A) Sphygmomanometer and stethoscope B) Pluck: pin #1 in lung,
pin # 2 in liver, pin # 3in gall bladder, pin # 4 in trachea
5: A) clam shell #1 on ant adductor muscle scar, # 2 on post adductor
muscle scar B) dissected clam pin B on post. adductor muscle, C) same
clam with pin C on foot D) same clam with pin D on inhalant siphon
20: A) Slide of ovary with pointer on corpus luteum
B) photos of frog, fish and rabbit C) photo of unfertilized and
fertilized sea urchin egg
6: A) live snail, live polycheate, B) dissected earthworm pin B on
supra - pharyngeal ganglion C) pin C on seminal vessicle
21: A) microscope slide of cross section of chick embryo with the
pointer on the dorsal hollow nerve chord B) rat fetus with placenta
pinned
7: A) female cockroach, ventral surface; B) cockroach, dissected, pin
B on gastric cecae; C) above cockroach 3 different pined structures: pin
1 = ventral nerve cord, pin 2 = tracheole, pin 3 = proventriculus
22: A) 3 vials of frog embryos #1 = neurula #2 = 4 cell stage #3 =
gastrula
8: A) dissected male cockroach, pin A on mushroom gland, B) pin B
on malphigian tubule C) pin C) on proventriculus
23: A) sea urchin larvae B) chicken egg C) fruit fly larvae
9: dissected starfish A) dissecting close up of arm showing pedicellaire,
B) pin B on cardiac stomach C) pin C on madreporite
24: A) bony fish #1, lamprey #2 B) photo of a snake
10: A) Crayfish ventral surface, B) dissected crayfish with pin B on
heart, pin C on digestive gland, pin D on green gland
25: A) Amphioxus in plastic mount B) photo of a turtle
11: A) trilobite fossil B) horseshoe crab C) millipede D) butterfly or
moth
26: A) two bird mounts showing different beak types, base labeled # 1
& #2, B) photo of a kangaroo C) feather
12: A) leech (live or preserved) B) anemone in a tank C) sea urchin
larvae
27: A) photo of a primate B) fish skeleton
13: Male rat pin A) seminal vessicle B) lacrymal gland C) spleen D)
diaphragm
28: A) snail, rat, artrhropod, B) cnidarian and tunicate
14: Female rat pin A) uterus B) caecum C) lymph node D) stomach
29: A) lamprey B) pigeon skeleton
15: Rat: A) esophagus B) fat tissue
30: Marine tank, no specimens labeled
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Specimen Request List – Bio 1A Lab Practical
Please fill in electronically and email to mmeighan@berkeley.edu & erol@ berkeley.edu
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