Major Points: - Defining characteristics of metazoans - Nutirtional mode - Multi-cellularity - Sexual reproduction with dominant diploid stage (usually) - Developmental genes - Evolutionary timeline of metazoans - HOW are metazoans multicellular? How did that evolve? - Metazoan fossil evidence - Cambrian radiation (when?, why?, so what?) - Animal body plans (symmetry? tissues? body cavity?) - Developmental biology (how did "tube" form?, tissue differentiation, "body plan" Hox genes code for transcription factors) - How do we build animal phylogenies today vs how did we used to?