Biology

General Biology I is the basic course for beginning college students majoring in biology. The course assists the students in acquiring a knowledge base about history, development, and significant moments and people in the discipline, the organization, characteristics, diversity and interrelationship of living things, bioenergetics, electromagnetic radiation and wave theory. The course presents key concepts and selected topics that reflect current research in all fields of biological sciences. The course provides examples of problem solving and experiments to provide familiarity with a scientific approach to interpreting living organisms. Three hours of lecture, two hours of laboratory per week.

General Biology II is a continuation of BIO 141 which is the basic course for beginning college students majoring in biology. The course assists the students in acquiring a knowledge base about history, development, and significant moments and people in the discipline, the organization, characteristics, diversity and interrelationship of biotic and abiotic systems. Evolutionary and ecological concepts including characteristics of various land biomes, populations, atmosphere, weather interactions and effects, and ocean systems are covered. The course presents key concepts and selected topics that reflect current research in all fields of biological sciences. The course provides examples of problem solving and experiments to provide familiarity with a scientific approach to interpreting living organ-isms. Three hours of lecture, two hours of laboratory per week.

This course is a comparative study of the morphology, anatomy, physiology, and taxonomy of the various animal phyla along with the molecular basis for evolutionary theory and classification. Three hours of lecture, two hours of laboratory per week.

Principles of Genetics is an introduction to the history, development, and significant moments and people in the discipline, principles of inheritance, functions of genes, gene organization, genetic regulation of prokaryotic and eukaryotic genes, and applications of genetics such as genetic modification, uses and effects of biotechnology, and cloning. Three hours of lecture, two hours of laboratory per week.

Microbiology is an introduction to the morphology, anatomy, physiology, and classification of microorganisms with special emphasis on bacteria. The course also addresses the history, development, and significant moments and people in the discipline, causes, characteristics, and avoidance of viral, bacterial, and parasitic diseases. Three hours of lecture, three hours of laboratory per week.

This course is a study of essential interrelationships of the chemical and physical aspects within the living cell in the micro and macro environment through a unified approach combining biology and chemistry. Included are a review of the molecular structures of biological molecules, bioenergetics and thermodynamic relations in terms of biochemical activity, survey of the ultrastructures, enzymes structure and function, membrane structure, the molecular biology of the gene, and the history, development, and significant moments and people in the discipline. Three hours of lecture, three hours of laboratory per week.