BIO 202 — : Foundations of Biology: Evolution, Biodiversity, and Organismal Biology
This course surveys the organismal/meta-organismal half of biological disciplines. Topics include the taxonomy and physiology of prokaryotes and basal eukaryotes; the taxonomy, developmental biology, and physiology of plants and animals; and single-species population dynamics and interspecies interactions in communities. The laboratory emphasizes evolutionary process and mechanism, phylogeny reconstruction, comparative anatomy/physiology/survey of plants and animals, and life history evolution. Required field trips support the development of observational and data analysis skills aligned with course objectives. C-ID BIOL 135S (with BIO 204 ) and BIOL-140.