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4.00 Credits
A study of life processes of plants, including photosynthesis, respiration, translocation, responses to the environment, mineral nutrition, and effects of plant hormones. Laboratory experiments illustrate these topics and place special emphasis on long term projects and reports. Prerequisites: Biology 230 and Chemistry 220 completed or taken concurrently. Offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the historical development and modern interpretation of evolution and the theories proposed to account for the change of organisms over time. Topics considered include origin and age of the earth; chemical evolution and the origin of life; population genetics, structure, variation, and distribution; adaptation and selection; speciation; evolution above the species level; hybridization; polyploidy; apomixis; homology; and phylogeny. Prerequisite: Biology 365 or permission. Offered in alternate years.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to microorganisms, focusing on the domains Bacteria and Archaea. Topics include working with microbes, bacterial cell structure, motility and chemotaxis, microbial systematics, metabolic diversity, basics of microbial pathogenesis, and antibiotics and antibiotic resistance. Emphasis on hands-on experience in lab organized around a course-long project. Prerequisite: Biology 230. Offered yearly.
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4.00 Credits
A comparative study of invertebrate and vertebrate development, focusing on the chief model systems used by experimental embryologists: C. elegans ( worm), Drosophila ( fruitfly), Zebrafish, Xenopus ( frog), chick and mouse. Topics covered will include gametogenesis and fertilization, early development, gastrulation, organogenesis as well as gene regulation and the function of genetic networks in development. Laboratory will offer hands-on experience with a variety of developmental model organisms in the context of a semester-long research project. Prerequisites: Biology 230, and 223 or 320. Offered in alternate years.
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4.00 Credits
The relationships of organisms to one another and their environment. Topics include climatology, biomes, biogeography, community structure and dynamics, population biology, competition, species, niche theory, energy flow and nutrient cycles, and terrestrial, lotic, lentic, and marine communities. Students are required to complete a field project and present recent ecological research papers to the class. Development of sampling and data interpretation skills are emphasized in the projects which are usually conducted at the James H. Barrow Field Station. Prerequisites: Junior standing and one of the following: Biology 213, 223, 315 and 316, or 320, or permission. Offered in alternate years.
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4.00 Credits
As an introduction to the ecology of the marine environment, this course will examine the relationships that occur among various marine organisms and their biotic and abiotic environments as well as the methodologies and thinking used to obtain this information. Readings from the text will be supplemented by primary literature. Field investigations may be conducted in a number of different local onshore and offshore environments. Prerequisites: Junior standing and one of the following: Biology 213, 223, 315 and 316, or 320, or permission. Offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
Conservation Biology is the study of species diversity in human-impacted landscapes. As human populations grow and the demand for natural resources increases human activities inevitably erode the integrity of natural ecosystems. This erosion leads to the loss of species, both locally and globally. In this course we will study what biodiversity is, how it arises and why it is important both for ecosystem functions and human well-being. We will also examine how human economic activities impact the natural world, the ecological mechanisms at work in the process of species extinction, and how research in conservation biology has led to the development of ways to halt or even reverse species loss. Prerequisites: One among Biology 151, 152 or Biology/Environmental Studies 241. This course is also listed as Environmental Studies 344. Offered irregulary.
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4.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the study of primate behavior and ecology. We will begin with an overview of the living primate species. Then we will consider the biological and social problems that primates face (e.g., finding a place to live, finding food, finding protection from predators, growing up within a complex social group, finding mates, and rearing young who can survive and reproduce), and the various solutions to these problems. Throughout the survey, we will examine the ways scientists have extracted general principles of behavior from the data, particularly those that are concerned with evolutionary processes. Methods of research used in the study of primate behavior will be emphasized. Prerequisites: Biology 151, Psychology 101, and Biology/Psychology 215. This course is also listed as Psychology 347. Offered irregularly.
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4.00 Credits
A problem-based introduction to molecular, classical and population genetics. Key sections of the course are what genes are and how they work, how gene expression is regulated, how genes change, and how genes are transmitted between generations. Lab will provide hands-on experience with experimental approaches to these same questions and using those approaches to address a novel research project. Prerequisite: Biology 230. Offered yearly.
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4.00 Credits
Biochemistry studies the molecules and chemical reactions in living organisms. Topics include the structure and chemical properties of major macromolecules (carbohydrates, lipids, nucleotides, and lipids) of living organisms, the role of enzymes and enzyme pathways by which these molecules are synthesized and degraded, and the cellular mechanisms which regulate and integrate metabolic processes. The laboratory emphasizes tools of biochemical analysis (spectrophotometry, chromatography, electrophoresis, centrifugation) in an examination of physical, chemical, and biological properties of biologically important molecules. Prerequisites: Chemistry 320, Biology 230. Also listed as Chemistry 366. Offered yearly.
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