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., BIO102, BIO103, BIO104, BIO107, BIO108, BIO110, BIO204, BIO210, BIO220, or BIO230)
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/BIO 204H) and BIOL-140.