2022-2023 Academic Catalog 
    
    Nov 27, 2024  
2022-2023 Academic Catalog [Archived Catalog]

BIOL 270 - Evolution


Credits: 4
This course will provide a foundation that students will use to understand (and integrate) all other biological disciplines. The student will gain an understanding of the causes and consequences of organismal change through time. Topics will include the genetic basis of change, change at the population level, phenotypic change within lineages, macroevolutionary change across geologic time scales and the mechanisms of speciation.
General Education Area: Natural Science
Prerequisite: BIOL-118, and BIOL-260
Corequisite: BIOL-270L