Tentative
Lecture Schedule and Topics

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Topic

1

Introduction,
Science as a Way of Learning

1

2

Taxonomy
and systematics

1,
26

3

Basic
ecology

54

4

Species
interaction (Exam I)

57

5

Chemical
nature of life I

2

6

Chemical
nature of life II

3

7

Cells

4,
6

8

Plasma
membrane (Exam II)

5

9

Enzymes
and cellular respiration

7

10

Photosynthesis

8

11

Nucleic
acid structure (Exam III)

11

12

Gene
Expression at Molecular Level

12

13

Chromosomes,
mitosis, and meiosis

15

14

Genetics

16,
17

15

Final
Exam