Topics include levels of biological organization, biological diversity, plant and animal structure and function, and comparative study of structure-function relationships in living organisms. Three lectures and one three-hour laboratory per week. Topics include cell structure and function, energetics and metabolism, gene structure and expression, and the techniques used to study these phenomena. Three lectures and one three-hour laboratory per week. This is an investigative field-oriented course that focuses on vertebrate populations and habitat analysis.
Students participate in group projects dealing with the principles of wildlife science.
Three lectures and one three-hour laboratory or field exercise per week. One weekend field trip is required. A study of the plants and fungi native to the southeastern United States, particularly Alabama, with special emphasis on identification, classification, distribution, and ecology. Two lectures and one three-hour laboratory per week. One weekend field trip is required.