Introductory
biology course for students accepted into the nursing program. The course
provides an introduction to cell biology, the fundamentals of Mendelian
and non-Mendelian inheritance, and the structure and function of the genetic
material DNA, with an emphasis on the genetic code and how it is expressed into
RNA and protein. The course concludes with an overview of the fields of epigenetics, cancer and stem cells.
Ecology
lab is aimed to accompany the Ecology course Bio235 and provide hands on
experience with ecological methods. Ecology is the study of the interaction of
organisms, populations and communities with each other and their environments.
This course will focus on the physical, chemical and biological processes that
determine the distribution and abundance of plants and animals. The course will
include the study of natural biomes, energy flow through food webs, adaptation
of species, population dynamics, nutrient cycling and ecological succession.
The purpose of this course is to explore the animal kingdom. The course is an introduction to systematics, anatomy, and physiology of major animal groups. The course provides insights of the basic concepts of zoology and diversity of major groups of invertebrate and vertebrate animals. Students learn general terms of anatomy, taxonomy and systematics; will understand the general principles that unite animal biology, appreciate the diversity found in the animal kingdom and understand the evolutionary relationships that explain this diversity, become familiar with the structure and function of vertebrate and invertebrate organ systems and appreciate some of the evolutionary changes that took place in the development of those organ systems.. We will also discuss evolutionary relationships among the different groups of animals. This course is accompanied by a lab course with hands-on activities focusing on selected taxa.
