Emphasis on cardiovascular, endocrine, urinary tract, energy imbalance, and eating disorders. Emphasis on pediatrics, home health care, and staff relief. Biol 1009 General Biology Introduction to major concepts of modern biology. Topics include molecular structure of living things, energy recruitment and utilization, flow of genetic information through organisms and populations, principles of inheritance, ecology, and evolution. Discussion of parasitic forms affecting human welfare.
Laboratory requires dissection including mammals.
Chem 2302 Organic Chemistry II Reactions, synthesis, and spectroscopic characterization of organic compounds, organic polymers, and biologically important classes or organic compounds such as lipids, carbohydrates, amino acids, peptides, proteins, and nucleic acids. Chem 2311 Organic Lab Lab techniques in synthesis, purification, and characterization of typical organic compounds. Genetics Mechanisms of heredity, their implications for biological populations, and applications to practical problems. Biol 4003 Genetics Introduction to the nature of genetic information, its transmission from parents to offspring, its expression in cells and organisms, and its course in populations. Calculus I First course of a two semester sequence.