Provides an overview of microcomputer hardware and software encompassing wordprocessing, spreadsheet, database management, utility, and graphic communications. It also includes specialized farm and agribusiness management and decision-making programs and criteria for evaluation and selecting hardware.
Emphasis is placed on the basic chemical and physical properties of soil.
Soil microorganisms, plant nutrients, and fertilization are discussed. Soil properties are related to growth. Introduces students to basic biochemistry techniques. The first course in a two-semester sequence on the fundamentals of biology. Lecture and laboratory emphasize the structural, molecular, and energetic basis of cellular activities, fundamentals of genetic variability, reproduction stratigies of organisms, and scientific processes.