Syllabus and Schedule Bio 211 Fall 2007

 

 

 

Time period

Topic

Reading

Module 1

Introduction

Chap 1

Aug 20-Sept 2

History of Life

26.2-26.5

 

Diversity of Life: Major Groups

26.6

 

Viruses

334-339, 343-345, 918-919

 

Prokaryotes

Chap 27

 

Protists 1

28.1-28.4

 

Protists 2

28.5-28.7

 

Exam 1

 

Module 2

Plants 1 Overview

29.1-29.2

Sept. 3-16

Plants 2 Bryophytes thru Ferns

29.3-29.4

 

Plants 3 Seed plants -Gymnosperms

30.1-30.2

 

Plants 4 Angiosperms

30.3-30.4

 

Fungi 1

31.1-31.4

 

Fungi 2

31.5

 

Animals 1 Overview

Chap 32

 

Animals 2a Sponges to Rotifers

33.1-33.3

 

Exam 2

 

Module 3

Animals 2b Lophophorates, Mollusks, Annelids

33.3-33.5

Sept. 17-30

Animals 3  to Nematodes, Arthropods

33.6-33.7

 

Animals 4 Echinoderms to Chordates

33.8, 34.1

 

Animals 5 Vertebrates 1

34.2-34.5

 

Animals 6 Vertebrates 2

34.6-34.7

 

Cells: Tour de Cell

6.1-6.2

 

Organelles

6.3-6.5

 

Cytoskeleton etc.

6.6-6.7

 

Exam 3

 

Module 4

Cell Cycle: Mitosis

Chap 12

Oct. 1-14

Cancer

19.3, 231-232

 

Meiosis

Chap 13

 

Genetics: Mendel 1

14.1-14.2

 

Mendel 2

14.3

 

Exam 4

 

Module 5

Chromosomes

15.1-15.4

Oct. 15-28

Human Genetics

14.4

 

Evolution: Evol 1a: Dev of ideas

22.1-22.2

 

Evol 1b: Evidence

448-451, 517

 

Evol 2a: Mechanisms

23.1-23.2

 

Exam 5

 

Module 6

Evol 2b: Microevolution

23.3

Oct. 29-Nov. 11

Evol 2c: Variation

462-464

 

Evol 2d: Types of selection

465-466

 

Evol 2e: Adaptation

468-470,484-485

 

Evol 3a,b: Speciation

472-481

 

Evol 3c: Macroevolution

481-482, 486-488, 518-520

 

Phylogeny

Chap 25

 

Exam 6

 

Module 7

Human Evolution

697-707

Nov. 12-20

Populations: Growth

50.1, 52.3-52.5

 

Demography

1139-1141

 

Life History

1141-1143

Thanksgiving Break

 

 

Nov. 19-25

 

 

Module 7 cont.

Human Population

52.6

Nov 26-Dec. 2

Communities

Chap 53

 

Ecosystems: Trophic levels

54.1-54.3

 

Exam 7

 

Module 8

Chemical Cycles

54.4

Dec. 3-14

Human Impact

54.5

 

Climate

1087-1092

 

Biomes

50.4

 

Aquatic systems

50.3

 

Exam 8, and Optional Final Exam