BIOLOGY, PART 2
Price: $125 | Credits: One Semester | Dept: Science | Course ID# 260-2
This course is designed to be the second semester of Biology and includes a laboratory component. Students explore the living world by examining structure, function, and processes at both the micro and macro levels. Emphasis is placed on understanding the diversity of life as a result of evolution and on investigating how organisms interact within ecosystems. Biology is approved by the University of California A-G as a laboratory Science – Life (category D)
Laboratory Science
In order to satisfy the University of California A-G requirements for a biology course, two components are required. The first is the course curriculum, the second is a lab. The lab component will be made up of virtual labs and experiments using household equipment and materials. Instructions for the labs will be included in the online course, students are not required to buy a lab kit. Here is a list of supplies that you will need for the course.
Credits & Study Hours
Upon completion of this course, the student is awarded 5 credits. Each credit corresponds to 15 hours of study. Of course, some students work more quickly than others, and some can devote more hours to study, so some students are able to complete the course at an accelerated rate.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
In this module, students gain a comprehension of the following:
- Evidence for change through time, including fossils, early ideas about origins, natural selection, mechanisms of evolution, and the use of classification and cladograms.
- The nature of viruses, how they spread, and how organisms defend against them.
- The structure, function, and importance of bacteria in ecosystems and human health.
- The diversity of protists and their traits that overlap with animals, plants, and fungi.
- The biodiversity and characteristics of fungi, including their structures, reproduction, and ecological roles.
- The evolution and adaptations of plants, including nonvascular and vascular plants, anatomy and physiology, and the development of reproductive strategies from spores to flowers and seeds.
- The distinguishing traits and adaptations of invertebrates, including sponges, cnidarians, worms, mollusks, arthropods, echinoderms, and invertebrate chordates.
- The characteristics of vertebrates, from amphibians and reptiles to birds, mammals, primates, and humans, and how they have adapted to different environments.
- Animal behavior and adaptations, including how behavior influences survival and reproduction.
- The principles of ecology, including energy flow through food webs, matter cycles, biomes, population patterns, biodiversity, conservation, and human impacts on ecosystems.
TOPICS COVERED
This course covers the following topics:
- Change Through Time
- Viruses, Bacteria, Protists, and Fungi
- Plants
- Invertebrates
- Vertebrates
- Principles of Ecology
