What can be better than studying life itself?

(Block D meets MTThF from 1:40 to 2:20)

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Hello, scholars! Welcome to our course. I am so excited to be working with you this year and getting to know each of you a bit better and in a different area of learning (outside of math class). One of the many reasons I love teaching this particular course is that we are part of the subject matter. The course is information about ourselves and the world around us. What could be more relevant than that?

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What I hope you will know by the end of our adventure together?

1. Perform activities to demonstrate improvement in the general education goals of communication, critical thinking, and mathematics.

2. Describe characteristics of living organisms that distinguish them from non-living constituents of the biosphere.

3. Utilize scientific methods to formulate and answer questions and discuss its strengths and limitations.

4. Describe and explain the properties and roles of biologically important molecules, including proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, and nucleic acids.

5. Describe the structure and function of cells and cellular components in single and multicellular organisms.

6. Describe how energy is acquired and used by living organisms.

7. Describe how traits are inherited and apply patterns of inheritance.

8. Explain the molecular biology of genes and their expression.

9. Describe the potential impacts of genetic technologies on society.

10. Describe how the various body systems within vertebrates, specifically humans, function to sustain life.

11. Explain possible origins of life on Earth and mechanism(s) of evolution that help us account for the amazing diversity of life we now find on our planet.

12. Explain how the flow of energy through an ecosystem influences its structure.

13. Describe how organisms interact with each other and their environment.

14. Apply biological and ecological principles to discuss current issues in human health, and human impact on the environment.

Please go through all the web pages here on Canvas to familiarize yourself with how we'll operate. You'll see that we do have a textbook, but that it is free and available online through Canvas (or from a URL or in PDF format as well). Please contact me as soon as you have any challenges so that we can work together to meet your needs.

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