Integrated Biology: Organisms to Ecosystems Honors

Catalog description

This Honors course introduces students to the diversity of life and provides the framework to understand its origins from underlying processes in organic evolution. Topics include natural selection, population genetics, systematics, speciation, history of life of Earth, morphological, physiological, and behavioral adaptation, and the principles of evolutionary ecology. As an Honors course, students will be completing advanced reading and writing assignments, will conduct more rigorous laboratory exercises,and perform more in-depth data analyses than in BIO 80. Field trips may be required to fulfill objectives of this course. Credit for BIO 80 or BIO 80H, but not both. C-ID BIO 140.