BIO102 Biology 2: Diversity of Life

An evolutionary survey of living organisms. Topics include life's beginnings, and unicellular organisms, fungi, plants, invertebrates and vertebrates and how they evolved. Laboratory includes dissection of selected species of the representative phyla. Fulfills open, liberal arts, and when taken with BIO101 or BIO124, the laboratory science sequence electives. (3 hours of lecture, 2 hours lab per week)