Course Organization Biology 110 is a course designed as an introduction to the study of biology, both for the science major and for the student only taking one biology course. There are a number of major themes that we will be using to unify our study of biology. These include process of science or the scientific method and the significance of variations, interactions, and evolution on living systems. A science such as biology is much more than an accumulation of facts neatly ordered in a text book.
Any science is both a study of knowledge and the process whereby that knowledge is obtained.
One of the aims of this course is to provide an understanding of some of the major principles of biology as understood today. As part of this process, it is necessary to acknowledge the validity of competing and often contradictory points of view, to accept the limited nature of what can be known with certainty, and to resist the temptation to reduce the natural world to simplistic categories of black and white. It is my hope that as you begin to comprehend the complexity and multiplicity of living things and living processes, it is inevitable that you will develop a deeper appreciation and awe of what life is. Cain, Damman, and Yoon. The text, as do most new introductory texts, comes with a CD rom and website that contains many resources that support the topics in the text.