This major includes population biology, ecology, conservation biology, animal behavior,population genetics, biogeography, and evolution. These fields have a common focus on evolutionary processes and whole organisms in relation to each other and their environments. Research careers in ecology, behavior and evolution are found in universities, government agencies, and the biotechnology industry.
Organismal biology spans a wide variety of topics.
This major has been designed to provide the basic fundamentals while allowing maximum flexibility within the general topic areas. All courses for the major must be taken for a letter grade. Chem 140A and 140B are prerequisites for Biochem. They are not required for the major but can be used as UD Bio Electives. D grades in courses required for the major are acceptable as passing, provided the major GPA and overall UC GPA are at least 2.0.