Principles of Organismal and Population Biology

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Three hours lecture and three hours laboratory per week An introduction to the biology of organisms including ecology, evolution, diversity, and human impacts. The ecology unit includes discussion of population, community, and ecosystem ecology. Evolution covers natural selection and the Darwinian revolution, origin of species, and other evolutionary processes. Diversity covers systematic and taxonomy, and a tour of life on Earth including viruses, prokaryotes, protists, fungi, plants, and animals. Human impacts on biological systems will be discussed. GenEd: 5B, 5C