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3.00 Credits
The required nutrients and their food sources, their metabolism and eventual functions and fates in the body will be discussed. Principles applied to specif ic life stages and circumstances. Current topics in nutrition will be addressed, including eating disorders, global nutrition issues, world hunger, food additives, supplements, pesticide use, factors leading to chronic disease, etc. Students will read current articles and develop analytical skills which enable them to make informed decisions regarding food choices. Designed for nonbiology majors. Three lectures.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
An introduction to the dynamic and interdisciplinary world of biological conservation. Fundamental principles from genetics, evolution, and ecology will be discussed and then applied to problems including extinction, species preservation, habitat restoration, refuge design and management, human population growth and its myriad impacts on our environment. Three one-hour lectures and one three-hour laboratory per week. Prerequisites: none. Designed for nonscience majors with special applicability for environmental studies majors.
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1.00 Credits
Lectures (possibly with laboratories) on topics in biology not generally covered by other nonmajor courses in the department. Examples of topics include field biology and evolution. The topic and course credit will be designated prior to registration for the semester in which a special topic for nonscience majors is offered.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course will explore the adaptations and relationships of organisms to their abiotic and biotic environments, with a focus on the varied ecosystems of the Hells Canyon region of northeastern Oregon and the high desert ecosystems of northern New Mexico. Particularly, we hope you will come to understand the forces impacting, and the impact of, individual organisms, as they exist over time and space, and as parts of higher levels of ecological constructs including the population, community, and ecosystem. A significant proportion of this class will be spent in the field quantifying vegetative associations and a selection of the fauna inhabiting those associations. The course is team-taught sequentially over two intensive, two-week periods. Laboratory sessions will consist primarily of fauna and flora identification, ecological monitoring techniques including vegetative plot monitoring, dry pitfall monitoring, and avian transect monitoring. Required of, and open only to students accepted to Semester in the West. Environmental studies majors may substitute this course for Biology 130 Conservation Biology or Biology 115 Regional Natural History, as an interdisciplinary foundation course in the sciences with a lab, for the major. Prerequisites: Acceptance into the Semester in the West Program. Distribution area: science with lab.
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2.00 Credits
The course will be taught by Prof. Dobson (Biology) and complements History 248, taught by Prof. Dott. It will provide an integrative exploration into the history and ethnobiology of peoples along the different branches of the trading routes across Asia known as the silk roads. We will delve into agricultural practices and crops of different peoples and regions and how they were shaped by geography and its associated landscape and climatic variables. Lectures and readings will describe major biological items traded, going into biological features and how they contributed to each item's importance. We will also discuss how movement of items along trade routes influenced the way peoples used them. Items to be covered include, but are not limited to: 1) food crops, e.g., grains ("staffs of life"), legumes, fruits, roots, spices, sugar; 2) animal sources of food, e.g., chickens, goats; 3) beverages, e.g., tea; 4) clothing and shelter, e.g., silk, cotton, wool, flax, bamboo; 5) medicinal plants, e.g. ginseng; 6) disease, e.g. "the plague"; 7) transportation, e.g. horses; 8) religious and decorative items, e.g., plant and animal dyes, lacquer, ince nse. Corequis ite: Students must enroll simultaneously for History 248, with the same title and also for 2 credits. Distribution area: scien
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3.00 Credits
An examination of life in the oceans, from the intertidal to the deep sea, with emphases on adaptations of organisms to major habitat factors and current environmental crises. Three lecture and/or discussion periods per week. Designed for nonbiology majors and may not be taken for credit by those who have completed Biology 278. May be taken concurrently with Biology 179. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
A week-long trip to a coastal location during spring break. Normally the trip will be to the University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories on San Juan Island, where we will trawl subtidal habitats on a research ship, investigate intertidal communities at various sites on the island, and conduct observations and experiments in a laboratory. There is a $200 fee for food and lodging on the San Juan trip. However, in some years, other locations may be used, with a higher fee. Designed for nonbiology majors and may not be taken for credit by those who have completed
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3.00 Credits
The principles which underlie the hereditary processes observed in microbes, plants, and animals. Selected topics include structure, organization, function, regulation, and duplication of the genetic material; protein synthesis and its control; mechanisms and patterns of inheritance; population genetics. Prerequisites: Biology 111; Chemistry 125 and 126, or Chemistry 140; sophomore status.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Laboratory exercises in molecular and Mendelian genetics. Labs will include DNA isolation, amplification, and characterization, introductions to computer DNA analysis and genomics, and an extended project in Mendelian genetics, involving phenotypic observation and segregation analysis. One three-hour laboratory per week. Prior completion of Biology 205 is recommended, but not required. Biology 206 is not recommended for BBMB majors. Co- or prerequisite: Biology 205.
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4.00 Credits
not offered 2008-09 This course will engage biology majors with the plants, animals and topography of a specific biotic province of our region (e.g., Blue Mountains or Walla Walla Valley) within the larger context of its geology and paleoecological history. The class will emphasize field experiences and interpretation of ecological and evolutionary processes shaping our surroundings with discussion of current environmental issues facing the area. One three-hour class per week, eight six-hour labs, some overnight. Prerequisites: Bio 112; Bio 215 or 277 recommended (or concurrent).
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