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3.00 Credits
This travel course will examine the development of the intellectual tools used in the natural sciences, particularly Biology, while visiting many of the institutions and locations in which the advances were made. The course will be held in London, UK and will include both lectures and field trips. P: BIO 211 and 212.
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3.00 Credits
BIO 432 Intro to Immunology will be offered in the Spring 2005. This lecture course is designed to present the basic principles and concepts of immunology. Topics such as organization of the immune system, evolution of the immune system, and cellular and molecular mechanisms used by the immune system to protect organisms from disease are discussed in detail. Additionally, course material examines the practical application of immunological experimental advances in basic and medical science. 3R. P: BIO 211 and 212 and one of the following BIO 362 or BIO 449 or BIO 417.
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4.00 Credits
Coastal and Estuarine Ecology is a 3 ½ week, intensive travel course. Participants experience, first-hand, the great diversity of marine ecosystems of the Gulf of Mexico, Tropical Atlantic, and Southeastern Atlantic regions. The class will examine tropical coral reef, sea grass, and mangrove communities, barrier islands (salt marshes, beaches, mudflats), and diverse open water habitats (lagoons, bays, tidal creeks and rivers, and near-shore shelf waters). The course emphasizes physical, chemical, and biological concepts applied to coastal habitats, with an emphasis on adaptations of marine organisms to their environments, ecological relationships, sampling methods and site characterizations, and threats to coastal ecosystems. The class stays at nationally recognized oceanographic and coastal field stations in Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi. The Creighton 18¿ Sundance Skiff and field station boats serve as work platforms and provide access to various habitats. P: One organismal-level or field course in biology or IC.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A field course designed to allow students to study faunal and floral desert adaptations. Students spend three weeks living at a field station in San Carlos, Mexico on the Sea of Cortez. Participants obtain and analyze field data to determine how small, ectothermic vertebrates utilize external heat sources in order to thermoregulate, culminating in a paper written while at the field station. Bioinventory activities include collecting, preserving and identifying museum quality specimens; trips to nearby Nacapule Canyon, night time and day time visits to local tide pools, snorkeling trips including Isla San Pedro and its sea lion colonies. Participating students should be prepared for warm, sunny weather and time both in and out of the water, kyaking and sailing. Qualifies as a population level biology course and as a laboratory course and is now Certified Writing. P: BIO 212, and IC.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the functions of animals from the cellular to the organ-systems level with emphasis on vertebrate systems physiology. 3R. P: BIO 211 and 212; Jr. stdg.
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1.00 Credits
Laboratory exercises designed to illustrate several physiological processes in animals, including cellular and whole animal metabolism, heart and muscle function, osmoregulation and responses to thyroxine and cold acclimation.3L. P or CO: BIO 449.
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to the morphologies and survival strategies of the protists (eukaryotic organisms without multiple tissues). Includes parasitic forms of medical importance and both parasitic and free-living forms of scientific, economic, and ecological importance. 3R. P: BIO 211 and 212.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Animal development with emphasis on the higher vertebrates. Gametogenesis, cleavage patterns and basic body plans, organ system formation, embryo-maternal relationships. Control of growth, differentiation, and morphogenesis. 3R, 3L. P: BIO 211 and 212.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Introduction to the interactions of organisms and the environment, especially the biology of populations, communities, and ecosystems. Individual adaptations, the nature of the environment, population dynamics, and community organization are stressed. Laboratory exercises include field trips to terrestrial habitats. 3R, 3L. P: BIO 211 and 212.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture series designed to provide students with a modern overview of vertebrate diversity. Lectures encompass ancestry, major adaptive shifts between classes of vertebrates, geographic distribution based on physiological limits, specialized feeding and locomotor modes, courtship patterns, reproductive strategies, and conservation issues. Useful foundation material for students desiring additional depth in vertebrate biology; complimentary content to that of BIO 333. 3R. P: BIO 211 and 212. Recommended as useful prior to enrollment in BIO 440 (Field Biology of the Desert Southwest) and for students seeking a general understanding of vertebrate life, or those who are interested in teaching biological sciences.
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