Core Science-Biology

Catalog description

Evolution, inheritance, and the interrelation of energy, life, and the physical environment provide the unifying themes of this course. Each of these is examined from multiple levels of organization-from the molecular to the biosphere-demonstrating the diversity of life within which the commonality of life is found. Issues to be considered include those critcal to effective citizenship in our changing world such as disease, reproduction, genetics, genetic engineering, and ecology.