This course is a vertebrate embryology laboratory course. The light microscopy of the following will be studied, demonstrated, and discussed; 1) structure of the male and female reproductive tissues; 2) light microscopy spermatogenesis and oogenesis; 3) light microscopy and comparison of mitosis and meiosis; 4) fertilization; 5) light microscopy of cleavage, blastulation, gastrulation, and neuralation; 6) light microscopy of early embryogenesis of the frog to 4 mm; 7) chick fetal development: 18 hours, 24 hours, 33 hours, and 48 hours; 8) fetal pig development to 10 mm.