Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

IMPORTANT...IMPORTANT: Please note the scheduled time and MAKE SURE your personal or professional schedule Does NOT clash with the Lecture and Lab Schedule. 

WELCOME to Our Bio 101!

Course Description: This Biology course Introduces the properties of life, morphology and physiology of cells, cell chemistry, energy transformation, and the basic principles of ecology. Designed as a laboratory science course for non-biology majors. Audit available
Prerequisite: WR 115, RD 115 and MTH 20 or equivalent placement test scores.
Class web page: Announcements, lecture notes and videos will be posted on the class web page (D2L).

Attendance: This is an in-person course with Lectures in the Morning and with the Laboratory in the Afternoon. Please keep in mind that attendance to the Lecture and Labs is Required.
Textbook: The required text for lecture is Biology: Life on Earth, 12th Edition (PCC Edition, found at PCC's Cascade Bookstore) by T. Audesirk, G. Audesirk and B.E. Byers, Pearson Ed. Inc.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a science course, and science courses like this one will require at least 6 Hours of work outside the lecture and lab hours, especially if you have not taken a science course in a while.

Also Important to keep in mind: To ease the amount of study hours and to facilitate a student-oriented lecture activities, this course implements the Flipped Classroom Model of Instruction; this means that Students will watch the Recorded Lectures and perform one or more tasks before our meeting on Saturday.

Lecture Component:
---We start the Lecture with a short introduction and then we have presentation/discussion about the week's material. Please make sure to have access to your textbook.
Laboratory Component:
The structure of the lab is similar to the Lecture: we will have a lab introduction and then we will carry out the labs. Usually we will form Lab groups to do the labs.
Details for the Lecture and Labs will be provided during our first meeting!

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Example of a Lecture Schedule:

Week / Textbook Chapter / Topics
1           Ch 1                           Introduction to Biology
2           Ch 2                           Atoms, Molecules, and Water
3           Ch 3                           Biological Molecules and the structure of DNA
4           Ch 4                           The Origin of Life, Cell Structure and Function
5           Ch 5, 6                       Cell Membrane Structure and Function and Energy Flow
6           Ch 7, 8                       Photosynthesis and Harvesting Energy
7           Ch 15                         Evolution and Systematics Review
8           Ch 27                         Population Growth
9           Ch28,29                     Community Interactions, Nutrient Cycling
10        Ch30,31                      Ecosystems & Conserving Earth’s Biodiversity

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Example of the Lab Schedule:

Week / Topic
1           Scientific Method (Lab 1)
2           Measurement & Ecosystem (Lab 2)
3           Atoms, Molecules, Water & pH (Lab 3)
4           Cells (Lab 4)
5           Enzymes, Diffusion and Osmosis (Lab 5)
6           Photosynthesis / Respiration (Lab 6)
7           Populations (Lab 7)
8           Community Interactions (Lab 8)
9           Food Webs (Lab 09)
10         Global Change (Lab 10)

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