BIOL 204 - From Molecules to Cells: Evolution of Life on Earth (Gen Biol I), Lecture and Laboratory

Principles of biology as a chronology of life on earth. Course focuses on the important evolutionary breakthroughs during the history of life that survive to the present day as biological principles: replication by nucleic acids, biochemical systems, gene expression and control, mitosis, meiosis, Mendelian genetics, and protist diversity. This course includes a lecture and required laboratory component held at different times. (Offered every semester.) 4 credits