Description
An introduction to major concepts of the biological sciences and
methods of scientific inquiry with an environmental biology
approach. The interrelated and interdependent principles and
concepts of biology will be presented as an intellectual discipline
that will provide a familiar framework to which students can relate
their biological experiences of their future. The complementarity of
the organism and its environment will serve in the study of the
following major themes and issues: science as investigation and
inquirty, structure and function of biological systems, diversity of
type and unit of pattern, evolution of organism, genetic continuity,
regulation and homeostasis, and the biological basis of behavior.
This course satisfies the natural science requirement for graduation
unless otherwise specified by academic major requirements.
Laboratory (4 s.h.)