2024-2025 College Catalog

BIO-201 Fundamentals of Biology I

Fundamentals of Biology I is the first of two courses required for life science and pre-professional majors such as pre-medicine, pre-dentistry, pre-pharmacy, and pre-veterinary medicine. This course provides an introduction to fundamental processes of organisms at the cellular and molecular level or organization. Course topics include bio-chemistry, cell structure and function, cellular metabolism, genetic information flow, and theory of inheritance. Credit for BIO-103, BIO-162 or BIO-205 will not be counted as science credit toward graduation upon completion of BIO-201.

Credits

4

Prerequisite

Recommend completion of CHM-120 or equivalent.

IAI Code:

L1 910L, BIO 910

PCS Code:

1.1

Lecture:

3

Lab:

3