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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Two semesters of college-level biology courses. This course introduces skills to describe and study the diversity of life. It is immersion, field-intensive instruction. General concepts include patterns of global biodiversity, biogeography of the Southern Plains, conservation biology, pressures on biodiversity, and national/international biodiversity protection efforts and policies. Field skill instruction starts with context description, emphasizing vegetation structure, followed by plant community description. Subsequent modules focus on inventorying animal communities, starting with insects and continuing with freshwater invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. The field skill component of the course concludes with a week-long exercise in habitats outside of north-central Texas. Biodiversity information management is learned by developing a relational database coupled with a local Geographic Information System.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours lecture per week. Prerequisite: BIOL 10504 and 10514. Concepts and principles of organic evolution. Topics include natural selection, adaptation, quantitative genetics, sexual selection, kin selection, life history characters, speciation, and phylogeny.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours of lecture and one 3-hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in BIOL or CHEM 50133 or equivalent and permission of instructor. Survey of techniques central to molecular and cellular biology, including centrifugation, chromatography, electrophoresis, spectrophotometry and radioisotopes.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Graduate or senior standing or approval of the instructor. The fundamentals of functional neuroanatomy and neurophysiology with an emphasis on experimental and theoretical analysis of the basic brain behavior relationships. (Offered as BIOL or PSYC credit.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PSYC 30463 or its equivalent or PSYC 50653 or its equivalent, or concurrent registration in either PSYC 50436 or PSYC 30463. One lecture and one laboratory per week. Emphasis will be on the laboratory techniques employed in physiological psychology and neuroscience in analyzing the neural and hormonal correlates of behavior (Offered as BIOL or PSYC credit)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PSYC 30463 or its equivalent or PSYC 50653 or its equivalent, or concurrent registration in either PSYC 50436 or PSYC 30463. One lecture and one laboratory per week. Emphasis will be on the laboratory techniques employed in physiological psychology and neuroscience in analyzing the neural and hormonal correlates of behavior (Offered as BIOL or PSYC credit)
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
Two four-hour laboratory periods per week. Prerequisite: CHEM 50143 or concurrent registration. (Offered as BIOL or CHEM credit.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: BIOL 30403 or permission of instructor. Two hours of lecture and one laboratory period per week. Study of the physical, chemical and biological factors affecting the ecology of lakes, ponds and streams.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: BIOL 30403 or permission of instructor. Two hours of lecture and one laboratory period per week. Ecology of fishes, basic techniques of fisheries management.
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2.00 Credits
Two hours lecture per week, one week of field work in the tropics and a terminal project. Prerequisites: Six semester hours in Biology; travel costs are exclusive of tuition; permission of instructors. This course provides an introduction to the animals, plants, and ecosystems of the New World tropics. Lecture topics will include tropical climate and ecosystems, evolutionary patterns in the tropics, and conservation of biodiversity. The field experience will expose students to coastal ecosystems (coral reefs, mangroves, and seagrass beds) as well as tropical, lowland rainforest.
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