This course is designed for students wishing to fulfill their lab science requirement and for students interested in pursuing a career in one of the allied health fields such as nursing or physical therapy. The primary objective is to gain an understanding of how the healthy human body works. Discussion and investigations center around the form and function of individual body systems and their integration into the living organism we know as the human. Lecture three hours, laboratory two hours. An introductory study of the diversity of animal organisms.
Emphasis is on the adaptations that shape animals to their environments.
Specific topics begin with taxonomy, heredity, evolution and ecology. These are followed by investigations into the physiological systems of animals on a comparative basis, including mechanisms of reproduction and development. Lecture three hours, laboratory two hours. An introductory course presenting the basic plant structures and their associated functions. Topics considered include the structure of plant cells, the organization of cells into tissues, the aggregation of tissues into organ systems, and the unification of organ systems in the whole plant body.