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3.00 Credits
Study of the evolutionary paradigm that unifies the science of biology. Origin, refinement and the contemporary form of evolutionary theory, with the objective of understanding its use in organizing the data, ideas and research of the biological sciences. The study will critique some of the popular caricatures of the evolutionary paradigm. No lab. Prerequisites: BI 150-154 and BI 363; junior standing recommended. Periodic offering.
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1.00 Credits
Theoretical and logistical preparation for the temperate field-marine-ecology expedition the following Jan Term. Class activities will prepare students for fieldwork and for the original research project that they will conduct at a field marine laboratory. No lab. Permission of instructor; limited enrollment. Prerequisites: BI 150-154 and BI 345. Fall semester, even years.
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4.00 Credits
Field-based course designed to explore the interactions of temperate marine organisms with their living and non-living environment. Students explore life histories and ecology of intertidal marine life in rocky shore, sand, mud flat, and planktonic communities. The class will be stationed at the Friday Harbor Marine Laboratory on San Juan Island, Puget Sound, Wash. Permission of instructor; limited enrollment. Prerequisites: BI 150-154 and BI 345. Jan Term, odd years.
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4.00 Credits
Fundamental relationships and processes by which organisms interact with each other and their physical environment. Focus on physiological adaptations, population growth and regulation, community and ecosystem structure and function, and biogeography. Lab. Prerequisites: BI 150-154. Spring semester.
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4.00 Credits
Ultrastructure, metabolic variations, genetics, ecology and evolution of prokaryotic organisms. Emphasis on the importance of bacteria in the study of various biological processes, as well as on the practical and technological importance and ecological significance of bacteria. Laboratory focus on techniques for isolating, culturing, and identifying bacteria, and on characterizing and studying their genetic and metabolic processes. Prerequisites: BI 150-154 and CH 271. Fall semester, even years.
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4.00 Credits
This course will examine the applied effects of microorganisms on the environment and on human activity, health and welfare. The role of microbes in municipal waste treatment, bioremediation and agriculture will be discussed. The laboratory component of the course will explore the detection and quantitation of microbial activity, including cultural, microscopic, physiological and molecular approaches.
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4.00 Credits
Variations of the basic vertebrate theme that enable the species within the group to exploit the particular environment. The evolutionary development of major organ systems within vertebrate classes. The anatomical features of carnivore, herbivore and omnivore mammals will be discussed in detail. Lab. Prerequisites: BI 150-154. Fall semester, even years.
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4.00 Credits
Developmental processes and patterns of form and function in multicellular organisms, particularly animals. Emphasis on molecular, cellular and environmental factors regulating gene activity, cellular differentiation, and pattern formation during various developmental sequences. Descriptive, comparative and experimental lab activities focus on chordate embryology, specifically gametogenesis, fertilization, cleavage, gastrulation and organogenesis. Prerequisites: BI 150-154 and BI 230; junior standing. Spring semester, even years.
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4.00 Credits
Mechanisms that contribute to and maintain intraspecific diversity: meiosis, allelic segregation, chromosomal assortment, dominance-recessive allelic relationships, hybridization, multiple alleles, epitasis, linkage and recombination, polygenic inheritance and mutation. Population genetics, especially the factors that alter relative frequencies of gene-pool alleles. Genetic molecules and the processes by which they are replicated, mutated and expressed. Human genetic diseases. Lab. Prerequisites: BI 150-154 and CH 271. Fall semester.
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4.00 Credits
Aspects of growth, metabolism, genetics, and environmental modification peculiar to fungi. Distinguishing characteristics of major fungal groups. Lab. Prerequisites: BI 150-154 and BI 230. Periodic offering.
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