BIOL 190A

General Biology I

Units: 1.5, Hours: 3-3

The first of two courses introducing the biological sciences. Biological chemistry, cellular diversity, membrane structure and function, energy transduction, DNA replication, mitosis and the cell cycle, meiosis and sexual life cycles, Mendelian genetics, gene expression, evolutionary theory, and diversity of prokaryotes, protists, plants, and fungi.

Note: Credit will be granted for only one of 190A, 210.

Prerequisites: Biology 12, or Biology 11 and 150B, or 150A and B; Chemistry 11 or 12 strongly recommended.

Undergraduate course in Biology offered by the Department of Biology in the Faculty of Science.