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3.00 Credits
The aim of personal health is to help students become knowledgeable about health, high-level wellness, and disease prevention. It begins with a general overview of past and present definitions and concepts of health throughout the history of health in the United States. Information is provided about the dynamic controllable and non-controllable features related to issues of health. The course also assists students to maximize both their personal lifestyle behaviors and their health environments by providing them with information and skills to identify the various factors influencing their level of wellness. Information and skills that can be incorporated into a lifestyle will be stressed. As an introduction to issues in personal health, this course will attempt to highlight many content areas and issues related to disease prevention and wellness. In addition, emphasis will be stressed on how to become an informed health consumer and to knowledgeably access the health system at various points throughout the life cycle.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the basic concepts underlying the life sciences. Cellular structure and physiology of plants and animals are discussed in detail. Other topics covered include growth and repair, reproduction and development, and heredity. This course is usually only offered in the fall term.
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1.00 Credits
Students registering for BIOL1310 may elect this laboratory course which meets for one three-hour session each week. This laboratory component is required for all environmental science students. In this course students will collect data and perform experiments that demonstrate the principles learned during the lecture. Students will keep a laboratory journal and record the methodology and results of their experiments. Experiments include exercises in cellular respiration, cell division, osmosis and diffusion, animal behavior, and the structure of flowering plants, as well as the exercises in genetics, photosynthesis, nutrient analysis of foods, chromatography, starch digestion, embryology, bacteriology, mitosis and meiosis and enzyme interactions. Students gain experience in the techniques of dissection and analysis of plant and animal specimens. There is a laboratory fee.
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3.00 Credits
Principles of Biology II is a logical continuation of Biology I course. It includes discussions of evolution, origin of life, diversity of life, and in particular, plant and animal life. It studies behavioral ecology including communities, populations, biomes and ecosystems. Environmental challenges are also discussed. Prerequisites: BIOL1310 and BIOL1315 Co-requisite: BIOL2315
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1.00 Credits
Principles of Biology II laboratory is a logical continuation of Biology I laboratory course. The laboratories will further explore concepts of life both on organismal level and biocenosis. It also includes discussions of evolution, origin of life, diversity of life, in particular plant and animal life. It studies behavioral ecology including communities, populations, biomes and ecosystems. Environmental challenges are also discussed. Co-requisite: BIOL2310
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3.00 Credits
This course is a fundamental study of microorganisms with emphasis on morphological and biochemical characteristics including the structure, physiology, genetics, pathogenicity, and classification. The role of microbes in nature, industry, and public health is discussed. Basic laboratory techniques are introduced and microbes are identified. Students registering for this course must also register for the laboratory BIOL2380. Prerequisite: BIOL1210 or BIOL1310 Co-requisite: BIOL2380
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1.00 Credits
This course studies microbes, parasites, and immunology. It includes identification of one unknown bacterial strain. This laboratory is taken concurrently with BIOL2370. Co-requisite: BIOL2370
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3.00 Credits
The student is introduced to plant tissues as well as to an overview of the plants. All aspects of the evolutionary tree of photosynthesizers is represented; from cyanobacteria to monocot and dicot angiosperms. Emphasis is then placed on a thorough study of roots, stems, and leaves of woody and non-woody plants. Plant physiology, nutrition, and transport are considered. Transpiration and its effect on the plant is stressed. Transport of organic substances in translocation and pressure flow are reviewed. Plant reproduction from micro spores to eggs, pollination, and fertilization in both gymnosperms and angiosperms is studied. Methods of asexual reproduction are included. Plant hormones are discussed. Processes such as tropisms, photoperiodism, vernalization, senescence, and dormancy are followed. Taxonomy of the major of the major phyla is studied. The course concludes with the application of plant study to horticulture, floriculture, and forestry. Principles of scientific inquiry are integrated throughout the course. Prerequisite: BIOL2310 Co-requisite: BIOL2480
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1.00 Credits
Students learn to use scientific methods of investigation, plant propagation, specimen collection and identification, and microscopy to study plant cell, tissue, and organ structure and function, energy, heredity, and reproduction, the diversity of plant life, and plants and their environment. Labs will focus on identification of essential plant parts using microscopic and macroscopic observations. Co-requisite: BIOL2470
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3.00 Credits
This course will study vertebrate zoology: origin, comparative account of skeleton, circulatory, excretory and nervous systems; development (egg types, cleavage , blastula and gastrula, germ layer/formation, embryonic membranes, placenta, and more). The course will examine the structure and function of animal organ systems in the framework of the evolution of adaptations. Prerequisite: BIOL2310 Co-requisite: BIOL2580
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