Biology is the study of living organisms and their interactions.
As there are many different ways to study living organisms, there are many fields of study within biology, includinganatomy, biochemistry, botany, cell biology, ecology, genetics, microbiology, physiology, and zoology. The Biology Department offers courses in all of these areas, allowing students to select the courses that best suit their interests and career goals. This is a particularly exciting time in biology. Rapid technological adcances are making things possible that were science fiction only a few years ago. Recombinant DNA technology has opened up a field of genetic engineering, and is beginning to produce advancs in medical and agricultural science that merely hint at future possibilities.