Principles of Organismal Diversity & Ecology

Catalog description

One of four courses in the introductory course sequence for Biology majors and in the pre-professional curriculum for the health sciences. Topics presented include the origins of life; the principles of phylogenetics; the developmental structural, functional, and life history diversity within major evolutionary lineages; and the principles of ecology at the population-, community-, and ecosystem-levels. Prerequisites and Corequisites Course prerequisite: BIOL 161 - Principles of Genetics & Evolution Course corequisite: BIOL 162L - Principles of Organismal Diversity & Ecology Laboratory Note Lecture plus lab component.