Includes blood and urine analysis, nerve-muscle physiology, exercise physiology. A survey of the study of animal behavior, its mechanism and methods of inquiry. Lectures and discussions are supplemented with films. Includes applications of ecology, genetics, neurophysiology and evolution to investigating the cause and function of behavior. Individual projects enable students to have experience with direct observation and analysis of behavior.
Students meet on seminar basis to discuss and define problems for investigation.
Sessions are followed by laboratory research. Field trips may supplement these activities. May be taken after or concurrently with Bio 251. A survey of the role of genes in heredity and daily existence of the human being. Basic molecular, genetic and chromosomal mechanisms will be described in order to examine human embryonic development, reproduction, disease, genetic counseling and ethics in medical genetics.