This course is appropriate for both science majors and nonmajors. Students receive credit for only one course. This is a course on the identification procedures, systematics, ecology, and natural history of bryophytes and vascular plants. Emphasis is on the identification and natural history of local plants native to Marin's fourteen plant communities. Most of the students' time is spent on field trips to local plant communities and conducting laboratory investigations.
Emphasis is on global, regional, and local environmental issues.
Local biotic communities will be studied on field trips. BIOL 171 3.0 units Biology Marine Mammals Taking an integrated approach to the biology of whales, seals, sea otters and sirenians we use lecture, laboratory, and field explorations to provide us with a framework for fundamental biological and ecological concepts. Physiological adaptations that have enabled marine mammals to exploit their aquatic environment such as diving, thermoregulation, osmoregulation, and orientation will be explored. Field trips will concentrate on identification and life histories of local marine mammals including a day-long boat trip on Monterey Bay. CHEM110 Emphasis is on physicochemical processes and homeostatic mechanisms in the human body.