Course overview
The aim of this course is to provide students with a foundation in biology covering key areas including evolution, diversity of organisms, cell structure and function, and inheritance. It provides a suitable background for further study in a number of biological disciplines with more focus on the organism level and above such as botany, zoology, ecology and agricultural sciences.
Course learning outcomes
- Describe how evolution best explains the complexity and diversity of living organisms.
- Predict the impact of evolutionary pressures on populations.
- Explain how cells interact to form tissues and whole organisms.
- Explain how cells obtain and transform energy during the life cycle.
- Contrast the diversity of animals with the diversity of plants.
- Explain the flow of genetic information in cells and how this leads to heredity.
- Measure, analyse and interpret experimental data.
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