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Nov 21, 2024
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2024-2025 College Catalog
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BIO 100 - Biology Concepts
Credits: 4
Lab/Lecture: Three lecture. Three lab.
Basic principles and concepts of biology. Explores methods of scientific inquiry and behavior of organisms and energy in biological systems.
Course Outcomes:
Students will be able to:
- utilize the scientific method in developing and testing hypotheses;
- analyze significant current events in science and explain their significance;
- evaluate the significance of changes in basic environmental variables to ecosystem function;
- discuss the basic phenomena important to population dynamics and organismic interactions;
- analyze the essential arguments for the theory of evolution;
- apply basic mendelian genetics;
- explain the fundamentals of human genetics and human inherited disease;
- evaluate the main biotechnologies and explain the implications of genetic engineering from both a societal and individual point of view;
- list the basic molecules of living systems;
- demonstrate an understanding of fundamental cellular organization and energetic principles.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 099 or placement.
General Education: Physical and Biological Sciences.
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