Covers plant hormones, differentiation, transport from soil to shoot, response to temperature and light, and control of reproduction. Lab exercises on a variety of vascular plants. A review of the animal kingdom from single-celled animals through the higher phyla, including morphology, taxonomy, and life history of major phyla with additional emphasis on comparative vertebrate anatomy. Lab involves detailed comparison of selected animal types. Phylogeny of the major plant groups, the important Illinois angiosperm families, and the interrelationships among plants and humans during the rise of civilization.
Lab covers the specifics of plant morphology with prepared slides and preserved and living plants.
Microbial principles and techniques for application in other fields or as a first course for study in area of microbiology. Lab includes techniques of working with microbes, microbial culture, control of microbes, bacterial identification, and medical applications. Production of antibodies, relationships of antigens and antibodies, development and responses of the humoral and cell mediated immune systems, the complement system, immunologic enhancement, immunogenetics, serologic reactions, autoimmune and immunodeficiency diseases, and allergies. Cellular and organismal disease mechanisms are studied with reference to specific diseases, with opportunity to apply this learning to actual case studies. The structure and function of nature at the organization levels of the individual, population, and community.