BIO 1030

Description

Introduces all major areas of general biology. Highlights the relevance and contribution of this discipline to business, health care, policy creation, and other sciences.

Objectives

1. Explain why it is important to acquire a basic knowledge of biology.
2. Categorize the organization of living things.
3. Discuss the role of evolution as the chief unifying principle of biology.
4. Discuss the different molecules of life such as carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleotides.
5. Explain how cells make proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates.
6. Explain how plant cells differ from animal cells and distinguish which organelles are specific to plant cells.
7. Explain the basic structure and composition of plasma membranes.
8. Name the three types of transport through membranes, indicate what type of molecule is transported by each, and explain what type of energy is required and if protein pores are needed.
9. Identify how the two laws of thermodynamics explain why some actions occur spontaneously while others do not, such as a rock rolling down a hill, and what are the different forms of energy.
10. Differentiate between exergonic and endergonic reactions and explain why the reactions are coupled in living organisms.
11. Explain why enzymes are so critical to living organisms and how enzymes function to hasten reactions.
12. Demonstrate where photosynthesis occurs, what organisms can perform photosynthesis, and why photosynthesis is so important for life on earth.
13. Explain what the reactions of photosynthesis are doing and why it is broken down into two different stages.
14. Describe the importance of DNA and differentiate between the following terms: genome, gene, chromatin, chromosomes, sister chromatids, the cell cycle, mitosis, and cytokinesis.
15. Demonstrate the events that occur during each of the two separate divisions of meiosis and distinguish the differences between meiosis and mitosis.
16. Explain the function of genes on human inheritance.
17. Describe the major features of the Watson-Crick model of the double helix, including the location of covalent bonds, hydrogen bonds, bases, phosphate groups, and pentose sugars, as well as the number of chains and how they are attached.
18. List the major steps in replication of DNA and describe how it ensures accuracy.
19. Understand what a mutation is, how mutations can be harmful or beneficial, and the consequences attributed to their location (either somatic or germ-line).
20. Define all associated key terms presented within each unit.

PreRequisites

None

Textbook(s)

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