Degrees

BIO 115 Biological Science Course Objectives:

1. To discuss science as a way of learning and how biology is a guide to the natural world.
2. To present the nature of life from various levels of organization, beginning from the small to the large and complex.
3. To review the essential parts of living things: atoms, molecules, and cells.
4. To discuss energy and its transformations (respiration and photosynthesis).
5. To review reproduction in cells (mitosis, meiosis) and organisms (genetics and DNA).
6. To thoroughly review the theory of evolution as the unifying theme of all biology and trace its origins and development over the last 150 years.
7. To determine how and why evolution is responsible for the diversity of life on earth.
8. To review the basic structure and function of plants.
9. To review the basic structure and function of animals.
10. To present topics in ecology: populations, communities, and ecosystems.