Students will be blocked from enrollment unless their computer records indicatesuccessful completion of the prerequisite course work.
Students who have completed prerequisite course work at another institutionmust provide transcript evidence to the Evaluations Office within the Admissions& Records Office. This must be done before attempting to enroll in the course, atleast 2-3 days prior to their registration appointment date. “Prerequisite EvaluationRequest” forms are available in the Evaluations Office, SSC-40.
For more information, contact the Evaluations Office at 760-744-1150, x2165, or [email protected].
Premed Club
Field Courses
The Life Sciences Department offers three field courses each year: Catalina Island (spring break), Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (summer), and Belize
(winter break). Click on the graphics below for more information.
Photo: Kristine Maloney
Online Courses
Biology 101, Dan Sourbeer, Instructor
Biology 114, Dan Sourbeer, Instructor
All Life Science Courses and Programs (These are PDF files from the 2009-2010 Catalog)
Biology
Staff Full-Time Faculty Richard Abistegui-DuBois - Physiology; General Biology; Molecules and Cells
Gary Alderson - Microbiology
Carey Carpenter - Anatomy; GYE Field Course
Ralph Ferges (Chair) - Physiology; A&P Jim Gilardi - Majors Biology; General Biology, Human Genetics; (onsabbatical for the fall 2010 term) Gene Gushansky - Anatomy; General Biology
Kimberly Marshall - General Biology; Molecules and Cells; Faculty advisor forthe Premed Club. Beth Pearson - Marine Biology; General Biology; Botany; Catalina and BelizeField Courses
Dan Sourbeer - Majors Biology; General Biology; Zoology; EcosystemBiology; GYE Field Course
Lesley Blankenship-Williams - General Biology; Microbiology Faculty Emeritus
Bob Ebert - Majors Biology, General Biology, Zoology, Human Genetics,Founder of the Premed Club.
Wayne Armstrong - Botany; proprietor of Wayne's Word, the best botany siteon the Web.
Adjunct Faculty for Fall 2010
Michael Burg - BIO 100: General Biology Barbara Durrant - ZOO 120: Animal BehaviorBob Ebert - BIO 200 Foundations I (Majors Bio)Bill Gaarde - BIO 105: Biology with a Human EmphasisBob Garrett - BIO 100: General Biology Rafael Gutierrez - ZOO 145: Anatomy and PhysiologyJohn Hakanson - BIO 100: General BiologyStacy Hull - BIO 102: Molecules and CellsTom Jensen - ZOO 120: Animal Behavior Bill Kloetzer - BIO 100: General Biology Ron Langlois - BIO 200 Foundations I (Majors Bio)Dan MacNeil - BIO 100: General Biology Michael Monahan - ZOO 145: Anatomy and PhysiologyRobert Mustard - BIO 201: Foundations II (Majors Bio)Melinda Ricatelli - BIO 100: General Biology Elmar Schmid - ZOO 145L: Anatomy and Physiology LabChris Tubbs - ZOO 120: Animal BehaviorGary Waayers - BIO 100: General BiologyRobyn Waayers - BIO 100: General Biology
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- Cumulative final exam (9:45 - 11:35AM) Final Exam
Bio100 S12-01
Quiz #1 (Jan 31) covers:
• Lectures L01 - L03
• Textbook chapters 1, 2
• Bio100 Notes S02
• Homework H1 - 3
Quiz #2 (Feb 14) covers:
• Lectures L04 - 06
• Textbook chapters 3, 4
• Bio100 Notes S04, S06
• Homework H4 - 6
Exam #1 (Mar 6) covers:
• Lectures L01 - 09
• Textbook chapters 1 - 7
• Bio100 Notes S02 - 09
• Homework
• Lab quizzes 1 - 3
Quiz #3 (Feb 28) covers:
• Lectures L07 - 09
• Textbook chapters 5 - 7
• Bio100 Notes S07 - 09
• Homework H7 - 9
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How to earn an “A” in this course (part 1)
Plan to study 3 - 6 hrs/week: (3 credit hrs)(1-2 hrs study per week/credit hr)
1) “Scan” the textbook and lab book chapters before class
2) Print lecture slides (6/page); bring these to class
3) Use your lecture slide print-outs for taking notes in class
4) Read “Bio100 Notes”
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How to earn an “A” in this course (part 2)
Plan to study 3 - 6 hrs/week: (3 credit hrs)(1-2 hrs study per week/credit hr)
5) Individual study tips
- read the textbook carefully
- review your notes and slides
- make flash cards
6) Form a study group with one or several classmates
7) Turn in homework assignments on time
8) Attend every lecture and lab session
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Tentative extra credit field trips
explore Carlsbad tide pools (-1.5’ on Wed Feb 22 at 2:18PM)
or
attend a San Diego Oceans Foundation lecture (TBD)
or
tour (for free!) the San Diego Safari Park (TBD)
Bio100 S12-01
What are we going to study?
Molecular and Cellular Biology
EUKARYOTIC CELL
Membrane
Cytoplasm
Organelles
Nucleus (contains DNA) 1 !m
PROKARYOTIC CELL
DNA (no nucleus)
Membrane
bacterial cellhuman cell
• Chemistry
• Biochemistry
• Organelle structure and function
• Cell division
• How plant and animal cells
obtain energy
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mitochondrion
chloroplast
What are we going to study?
How plant and animal cells obtain and use energy
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What are we going to study?
Molecular genetics and biotechnology
• How cells read the genome
• Inherited & acquired gene mutations
• Molecular basis of disease
• Therapeutic drug discovery
• Vaccine development
Sperm cell
Nucleicontaining
DNA
Fertilized eggwith DNA fromboth parents
Embyro’s cells with copies of inherited DNA
Offspring with traitsinherited fromboth parents
Egg cell
DNA
Cell
Nucleotide
ACTATA
CC
G
G
TA
TA
Nucleus
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What are we going to study?
Organization of Living Things
Prokaryote cells
• are usually smaller than eukaryotic cells
• lack membrane-bound organelles
• lack a nucleus
Bacteria Archaea
Prokaryotes
Protists Fungi Plants Animals
Eukaryotes
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1
2
3
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
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What are we going to study?
Evolution of living things
Bio100 S12-01
What are we going to study?
Evolution of living things
Multicellularity
True tissues
Radial symmetry
1
Sponges Cnidarians
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Kingdom Animalia
Coelom from digestive tube
Echinoderms Chordates
4
Bilateral symmetry
No body cavity
Body cavities
PseudocoelomTrue coelom
Coelom from cell masses
2
3
Flatworms Roundworms AnnelidsMollusks Arthropods
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MoleculeDNA
AtomOxygen atom
• Cell biology
• Molecular biology
• Biochemistry
• Chemistry
CellHeart muscle cell
Organism Zebra
Organ systemCirculatory system
OrganHeart
TissueHeart muscle
tissue
• Anatomy
• Physiology
• Genetics
• Developmental biology
• Histology
CommunityAll organisms in savanna
PopulationHerd of zebras
• Wildlife biology
• Marine biology
Ecosystem African savanna
• Conservation biology
• Ecology
What are we going to study?
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popular topics in biology
• new biotech treatments for disease
• anti-viral vaccines
• biofuels
• global threats to biological diversity• climate change
• pollution
• conservation• local (e.g., California Marine Protected Areas)
• world wide (e.g., Africa wildlife reserves)
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The history of biology: distinguished scientists“All living organisms are composed of cells”
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703)
• microscopy: author of Micrographia; first used "cell" in biology
• Hooke’s law of elasticity(the watch spring)
• astronomy
• architect
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The history of biology: distinguished scientists“All living organisms are composed of cells”
Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723)
• Described algae, bacteria and protozoa using a simple microscope
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Views through a simple microscope as seenby Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
http://www.sciences.demon.co.uk/wav-spf.htm
spiral bacteria microspora cells (cyanophytes)
truffle human sperm
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The history of biology: distinguished scientists“Taxonomy, evolution and heredity”
Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linné; 1707 - 1778)
• The binomial system of naming organisms
Kingdom (e.g., Animalia)
Phylum (e.g., Chordata)
Class (e.g., Mammals)
Order (e.g., Primates)
Family (e.g., Hominoidea)
Genus (e.g., Homo)
Species (e.g., H. sapiens)
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The history of biology: distinguished scientists“Taxonomy, evolution and heredity”
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744 - 1829)
• Pre-Darwin ideas on evolution:
- use or disuse causes structures to enlarge or shrink over
- several generations
- such changes are heritable
• Fossil evidence suggests that mollusks change over time
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The history of biology: distinguished scientists“Taxonomy, evolution and heredity”
Charles Darwin (1809 - 1884)
• "On The Origin Of Species", 1859
Modern species evolved from ancestral forms
• Natural selection (the struggle for existence) is the principle mechanism for evolution
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The history of biology: distinguished scientists“Taxonomy, evolution and heredity”
Gregor Mendel (1822 - 1884)
• Proposes basic laws of genetics based on propagation experiments with garden
pea plants
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The history of biology: distinguished scientists“20th century scientists and biology milestones”
Jonas Salk (1914 - 1995)
• Develops a vaccine that protects against polio virus infection
• The Salk Institute
"Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of
those who dare to make dreams into reality.”Bio100 S12-01
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Distinguished 21st century scientists
Syndey Brenner, Robert Horvitz & John Sulston
• 2002 Nobel prize: for their discoveries concerning
“genetic regulation of organ development and
programmed cell death pathway”
• scientist at the Salk Institute
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Distinguished 21st century scientists
Syndey Brenner - Salk Institute
Andrew Fire & Craig Mello
• 2006 Nobel prize: gene silencing by interference RNA
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Distinguished 21st century scientists
Syndey Brenner - Salk Institute
Andrew Fire & Craig Mello
Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans & Oliver Smithies
Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak
• 2009 Nobel prize - for the discovery of how chromosomes are
protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase
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NEXT: Chemistry (L02)
• metric units
• elements, atoms, orbitals, the periodic table
• compounds, molecules, molecular bonds
• water: the ideal solvent
• pH and buffers
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DEFINITIONS
Biology is the scientific study of life
Hypothesis: A tentative answer to a well-framed question
or an explanation for an observed phenomenon.
Theory: An explanation that is broad in scope, generates
new hypotheses, and is supported by a large body of
evidence.Bio100 S12-01
The process of science
Scientific method: A collection of techniques for
investigating phenomena and acquiring knowledge. It
is based on observable, empirical, measurable
evidence, and is subject to laws of reasoning.
Discovery-based science
Hypothesis-based science
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Discovery-based science: a scientific method that emphasizes analysis of large volumes of experimental data with the goal of finding new patterns or correlations, leading to hypothesis formation and other scientific methodologies (a.k.a. data mining)
Hypothesis-based science: a tentative answer to a well-framed question or explanation for an observed phenomenon
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