BIO-130: Evolution and Behavior

Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

1. Provide a working definition of science.
2. List the characteristics of living organisms.
3. Summarize the processes of evolution natural selection.
4. Describe the life and discoveries of Charles Darwin.
5. Distinguish between proximate and evolutionary explanations.
6. Explain the proximal and evolutionary causes of diseases like Ebola virus, cancer, and cystic fibrosis.
7. Explain why bacteria develop antibiotic resistance.
8. Speculate on the question of why we age.
9. Describe the characteristics of an animal.
10. Describe the genetic bases and evolutionary development of social behavior, including the concept of the selfish gene.
11. Define Animal Behavior, Ethology and Behavioral Biology.
12. Compare and contrast mitosis and meiosis.
13. Describe the roles that genes, chromosomes, and proteins and play in determining traits.
14. Describe how chromosomes determine sex in various animals, especially humans.
15. Describe the mechanisms of evolutionary change how they cause evolution to occur.
16. State the biological definition of a species.
17. Describe causes of extinction.
18. Explain scientific evidence that supports evolution.
19. Compare and contrast humans and the great apes.
20. Describe the history of human evolution.
21. Compare and contrast human societies with societies of other animals and evaluate culture as it might relate to other animals.
22. Propose explanations for the causes of conflict between groups.