FOUNDATIONS OF BIOLOGY I HONORS

Catalog description

This combined lecture and lab course integrates four broadly defined levels of organismal structure and function into a coherent framework: biological chemistry, cell structure and function, cellular metabolism, classical and molecular genetics, and the molecular basis of evolutionary biology woven together using basic themes of structural/functional hierarchy, energetics, and information flow. This is the first semester of a two-semester sequence designed for biological science and pre-professional majors. 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 51. Credit for BIO 51 or 51H, but not both.