4.00 Credits
This course introduces the scientific method, cell chemistry, cell structure and function, gene action and genetics, natural selection and mechanisms of speciation, the origin of life, diversity of living organisms and classification, and surveys of viruses, bacteria, protists, and fungi, and the human immune system. This is the first semester course of a yearlong sequence that is required for most biology majors, many pre-professional majors, natural resource majors and some agriculture majors.
Corequisite:
BIO 1615