BIOL - Biology

This course is intended for students typically in their fourth semester of the two-year biological sciences program. The course is designed to prepare the student for transfer to a four-year institution and/or enter the workforce. Students are introduced to the theoretical and practical aspects of preparing and delivering a full-feature (40-45 minute length ) presentation on a given topic within the realm of a biological discipline.

Each of us is intimately involved with plants. We wear them, ingest them, exchange gas molecules with them, live under them, etc. In this course students will develop knowledge of plant morphology (form) and function that later enhances their lives. Topics include the study of human food, ornamental plants, feed, forestry, and any other use of plants to sustain life on the planet Earth or provide other ecosystem services.

This is a lecture- and lab-based online course that is the first in a two-semester sequence, including laboratory components, that covers the structure and function of the human body. General study covers the organization, covering, support, and movement of the body. Topics include an orientation to the human body, chemistry of life, cells and tissues, and the integumentary, musculoskeletal, nervous, and sensory systems.

This course incorporates a survey of molecular, cellular, and hereditary principles. Topics include the chemistry and physics of cellular activities; the ultrastructure of cells, photosynthesis and cellular metabolism; the structure and function of DNA; recent developments in DNA bio-technology; and hereditary aspects of early embryonic development of plants and animals into complex structures (organogenesis).