Units: 4
Prerequisites: Knowledge, skills, and abilities at the intermediate algebra level as determined by the math placement process.
Advisory: Any college-level biology course with an organismal or population focus (e.g., BIO 102, BIO 103, BIO 104, BIO 107, BIO 108, BIO 110, BIO 204, BIO 210, BIO 220, or BIO 230)
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

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. The laboratory portion also includes local field trips or online alternatives. C-ID BIOL 135S (with BIO 204) and BIOL-140.