This course provides the health career student, allied health oriented science student and other interested student with a descriptive treatment of the principles of heredity. The molecular basis of inheritance will be studied, also. Students will be required to submit assignments, take in-class quizzes and exams and complete a comprehensive final examination. This is an introductory course in the study of microorganisms, with emphasis on bacteria. Lecture topics include morphology, physiology and genetics of microorganisms, and their impact on human health and the environment.
Laboratories emphasize bacterial culturing and identification procedures.
Students are taught, and required, to work safely with live bacteria in laboratory. BI101 General Biology 1, and BI102 General Biology 2 or BI106 Human Anatomy and Physiology 1 and BI107 Human Anatomy and Physiology 2, or permission of the Life Science Department Head. The lecture portion of this course is a classical ecological presentation. Interrelationships of organisms and their environment are studied. Some of the topics covered include basic ecological principles, natural selection and speciation, energy flow and productivity, and biogeochemical cycling of nutrients.