Week 1 - INTRODUCTION:  Life, The Scientific Method, The Rise of Modern 

Biological Science, Darwin's Theory, Modern Biology.  



Week 2 - SOME SIMPLE CHEMISTRY:  The Elements, Chemical Bonds, Some Important 

Inorganic Molecules. 



Week 3 - THE CHEMISTRY OF LIFE:  Some Simple Organic Chemistry, Chemical 

Reactions. 



Week 4 - AT THE BOUNDARY OF THE CELL:  The cell Theory, Viewing the Cell, 

Functions of the Cell Membrane, Structure of the Cell Membrane, Cell Walls and 

Coats, Multicellularity.  



Week 5 - INSIDE THE CELL:  Subcellular Organelles, Eucaryotic Versus 

Procaryotic Cells.



Week 6 - ENERGY TRANSFORMATIONS: RESPIRATIONS:  The Flow of Energy, Cellular 

Respirations. 



Week 7 - ENERGY TRANSFORMATIONS: PHOTOSYNTHESIS:  Early Research in 

Photosynthesis, The light Reactions: Photo-phosophorylation, The Dark 

Reactions: Carbon Fixation, The Leaf as an Organ of Photosynthesis. 



Week 8 - THE STRUCTURE AND REPLICATIONS OF DNA:  The discovery of DNA Structure 

and Function, The Replication of DNA.



Week 9 - TRANSCRIPTION AND TRANSLATION:  Transcription, Translation, Errors in 

Transcription and Translation.



Week 10- MOBILE GENES AND GENETIC ENGINEERING:  Plasmids and Sex Factor in 

Bacteria, Viruses as Agents of Gene Movement, Transposition of Genes within 

the Genome, Genetic Engineering. 



Week 11- CONTROL OF GENE EXPRESSION:  Control of Gene Expression in Bacteria, 

Control of Gene expression in Eucaryotes, Cancer: A Failure of Normal Cellular 

Controls. 



Week 12- CELLULAR REPRODUCTION:  The Transfer of Genetic Information, Mitotic 

Cell Division, Alternative Patterns of Nuclear division, Meiotic Cell Division.



Week 13- THE COURSE OF ANIMAL DEVELOPMENT:  Fertilization, Embryonic 

Development, Postembryonic Development.



Week 14- MECHANISMS OF ANIMAL DEVELOPMENT:  The Polarity of Eggs, Zygotes, and 

Blastomeres; Induction in Embryogenesis, Pattern Formation, Dedifferentiation 

and Regeneration, The organization of Neural Development. 



Week 15- IMMUNOLOGY:  The Immune Response, Cells and Organs of the Immune 

System, The Hurmoral Immune  Response, The Cell-Mediated Immune Response, 

Recognition of Self, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, The Genetic Basis of 

Antibody Diversity, Evolution of the Immune System. 



Weeks 16- INHERITANCE:  Monohybrid Inheritance, Multihybrid and Multigenic 

Inheritance, Penetrance and Expressivity, Multiple Alleles, Mutations and 

Deleteriour Alleles, Sex and Inheritance, Linkage, chromosomal Alterations, 

The Evaluation of Experimental Results. 



Week 17- VARIATION, SELECTION, AND ADAPTATION:  Variation, Selection, Adaptation.



Week 18- SPECIATION AND PHYLOGENY:  Units of Population, Speciation, The 

Species Problem, The Concept of Phylogeny.



Week 19- THE ORIGIN AND EARLY EVOLUTION OF LIFE:  The orgin of Life, 

Precambrian Evolution, The kingdoms of Life.



Week 20- VIRUSES AND BACTERIA:  Viruses and Viroids, Eubacteria, 

Archaebacteria. 



Week 21- ARCHAEZONANS AND PROTISTS:  Archaezoans, Protistan Systematics, 

Animal-like Protists (Protozoans), Fungus-like Protists, Plant like Protists.



Week 22- CHROMISTANS AND PLANTS:  Chromista, Lower Plants, The Movement Onto 

Land, Higher (fully terrestrial) Plants, Summary of Evolutionary Trends. 



Week 23- FUNGI:  Chytridiomycota and Hyphochytridiomycota, Zygomycota, 

Ascomycota, Basidiomycota. 



Week 24- INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS:  Porifera, The Radiate Phyla, Origin of the 

Eumetazoans, The Acoelomate Bilateria, Divergene of the Protostomia and 

Deuterostomia, The Pseudocoelomate Protostomia, Divergence of the Protostomia 

and Deuterostomia, The Coelomate Protostomia, The Deuterostomia. 



Week 25- CHORDATE ANIMALS:  Invertebrated Chordates, Vertebrate Tissues, 

Vertibrate Organs, Vertebrate Phylogeny, Evolution of the Primates, The 

Evolution of Human Beings. 



Week 26- NUTRIENT PROCUREMENT AND PROCESSING BY PLANTS AND OTHER AUTOTROPHS:

Nutreint Requirements of Green Plants, Nutreint Procurement by Green Plants. 



Week 27- NUTRIENT PROCUREMENT AND PROCESSING BY ANIMALS AND OTHER HETEROTHROPHS: 

Nutrient Requirements of Heterotrophic Organisms, Nutrient Procurement by Fungi, 

Mitrient Procurememt by Aminals and Protozoans. 



Week 28- GAS EXCHANGE:  The Problem, Solutions in Terrestrial Plants, 

Solutions in Aquatic Animals, Solutions in Terrestrail Animals, Water 

Conservation.  



Week 29- INTERNAL TRANSPORT IN UNICELLULAR ORGANISMS AND PLANTS:  Organisms 

without Transport Systems, Solution in Vascular Plants, The Water Cycle.  



Week 30- INTERNAL TRANSPORT IN ANIMALS:  Circulation in Insects, Circulation 

Vertebrates, Temperature Regulation, Human Blood.  



Week 31- REGULATION OF BODY FLUIDS:  The Extracellular Fluids of Plants, The 

Vertebrate Liver, The Problem of Excretion and Salt and Water Balacne in 

Animals, Excretory Mechanism in Animals.  



Week 32- DEVELOPMENT AND CHEMICAL CONTROL IN PLANTS:  Development of an 

Angiosperm Plant, Hormones and Plan Growth, Control of Flowering. 



Week 33- CHEMICAL CONTROL IN ANIMALS:  Hormones in Invertebrates, Hormones in 

vertibrates, Mechanisms of Hormonal Action, Local Chemical Md\ediators, The 

Evolution of Hormones. 



Week 34- HORMONES AND VERTEBRATE REPRODUCTION:  The Process of Sexual 

Reproduction, The Human Reproductive System. 



Week 35- NERVOUS CONTROL:  Organization and Evolution of Nervous Systems, How 

Neurons Work, Neural Pathways in Vertebrates, The neural Control of More 

Complex Behavior. 



Week 36- SENSORY RECEPTION AND PROCESSING:  Sensory Reception, Sensory 

Processing and the Brain.  



Week 37- MUSCLES:  The structural Arrangements of Muscles and Skeletons, The 

Physiology of Muscle Activity.  



Week 38- ANIMAL BEHAVIOR:  The fundamental Components of Behavior, Motor 

Programs, Motivation and Drive, Communication, Learning and Behavior, Avian 

Navigation.  



Week 39- ECOLOGY OF POPULATIONS AND COMMUNITIES:  Populations as units of 

Structre and Function, The Biotic Community. 



Week 40- ECOSYSTEMS AND BIOGEOGRAPHY:  The Biosphere, The Economy of 

Ecosystems.