Course Course Summary Section 1 Content Section 1 Content Left Section 1 Content Right Credit Type: Course ACE ID: EXCL-0013 Organization: Excel Education Systems, Inc. Location: Online Length: 24 weeks (126 hours) Dates Offered: 10/1/2020 - 9/30/2023 Credit Recommendation & Competencies Section 2 Content Section 2 Content Left Section 2 Content Right Level Credits (SH) Subject Lower-Division Baccalaureate 3 biology Description Section 3 Content Section 3 Content Left Section 3 Content Right Objective: The course objective is for students to learn the classification, structure and function of organisms, ecological principles, and mechanisms of evolution. Learning Outcomes: apply the processes of scientific inquiry including experimental design explain the essential elements of life, major hypotheses for life's history, mechanisms for the diversification of life, and macroevolution apply the tools of evolutionary biology to the analysis and evaluation of historical relationships among organisms; evaluate the ecological relationships of organisms at the population, community, and ecosystem level describe flow of energy within an ecosystem and the role of nutrient cycling in maintaining ecosystem integrity explain fundamental prokaryotic replication, metabolism, and cellular structure in relationship to evolution of diversity compare and contrast differences in animal and plant development and their life cycles describe how plants and animals maintain homeostasis: water and ion balance, gas exchange, energy and nutrient acquisition, temperature regulation; identify major groups and arrange them within currently recognized taxa compare and evaluate different phylogenies in terms of relationships amongst taxa describe structural organization/morphology identify and describe structures and relate them to their functions classify individual representative specimens to phylum General Topics: Overview of the tree of life Phylogeny/evolutionary history of major taxa Systematics and taxonomy: classification schemes Prokaryotes Protists Fungi Survey of animal phyla Survey of plant phyla Animal systems structure: anatomy Animal systems function: physiology Plant systems structure: anatomy Plant systems function: physiology Animal development and life cycles Plant development and life cycles Population ecology Population structure, growth, regulation, and fluctuation Intraspecific interactions Social systems and behavior Community ecology Interspecific interactions: predator-prey relations, competition, symbiosis Community structure and succession Ecosystem diversity (biomes) Ecosystems ecology: trophic structure Energy flow Nutrient cycling and ecosystem integrity Conservation biology Mechanisms of evolutionary change: natural selection, genetic drift, gene flow, and mutation, and nonrandom mating Population genetics Speciation and extinction Instruction & Assessment Section 4 Content Section 4 Content Left Section 4 Content Right Instructional Strategies: Audio Visual Materials Computer Based Training Methods of Assessment: Quizzes Proctored Final Examination Minimum Passing Score: 70% Supplemental Materials Section 5 Content Section 5 Content Left Section 5 Content Right Section 6 Content Section 6 Content Left Section 6 Content Right Button Content Rail Content 1 Page Content