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Biology

Biology I, II

 

Instructors
Maria Helena FORTUNATO MARTINS

 

Availability
First six months for freshman students

 

Overview
The course will present the fundamental principles and concepts of biology. The course will emphasize how the concepts were originally conceived and tested and how alternatives were rejected. Students will learn and use the fundamental concepts of biology to draw conclusions from data, to develop alternative hypotheses to explain observations, to make predictions, and to design experiments to test hypotheses. In addition, the social and medical implications of biological findings will be developed as classroom discussions