Though it fulfills the general education requirement, this course is only recommended for the athletic training major and education major seeking physical education licensure. The relationship between cellular, organelle and molecular structure to the basic activities that all living things undertake. Includes basic biochemistry, membrane and organelle structure and function, cellular reproduction, enzymes and metabolism and the central dogma. Students learn about the nature of science by undertaking open-ended research projects using modern investigative laboratory techniques, by reading and analyzing the work of other scientists, and by preparing both written and oral presentations of their project findings. The study of the major physiologic processes occurring in plants and animals.
Students learn how plants and animals solve similar problems while coping with environmental change.
These problems include fluid transport, gas exchange, excretion of waste, nutrition, communication and movement. Solutions must be within the limitations imposed by basic physical, chemical and evolutionary processes. Laboratory experience includes an inquiry based study of growth, requiring statistical analysis and written research reports that are evaluated for inclusion into the department s research journal. The one unifying theory of biology is the theory of evolution by natural selection. This course studies the geological record, origin of life, natural selection, origin of species, population genetics and human evolution.