Text Assignments
for Spring 2002
(by Lecture Weeks)

Week 1: 
Fundamental characteristics of life:  pages 2 - 9
Levels of biological organization:  page 6
Aquatic environments:  pages 756 - 757
Ecosystem structure:  pages 772 - 778 

Week 2: 
Ecosystem dynamics pages 276 - 279; page 420; pages 719 - 731

Week 3: 
Population structure:  pages 684 - 687
Population functions:  pages 688 - 693
Population fluctuations:  pages 694 - 701

Week 4: 
Population limiting factors pages 676 - 679; pages 718 - 725

Week 5:
Terrestrial environments pages 756 - 771
Nutrition in plants pages 430 - 431 pages 440 - 441

Week 6: 
Transport in plants pages 426 - 427 pages 432 - 435; pages 442 - 447
Gas exchange systems pages in plants: 428 - 429

Week 7: 
Nutrition in animals pages 612- 613; pages 614- 619
Gas Exchange in animals pages 596 - 603
Transport in animals pages 554 -559; pages 562 - 567 pages 572 - 573

Week 8: 
Homeostasis pages 472 - 473; pages 482 - 483; pages 632 - 633; pages 639 - 641
Surface to volume ratio pages 54; 598; 620

Week 9: 
Cell organelles and their function pages 54 - 57; 70 - 73
Basic chemistry pages 22 - 32
Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins pages 34 - 45
Function of enzymes pages 82 - 85

Week 10: 
Cell membranes pages 52 - 53
Movements across membranes pages 86 - 91; page 639
Photosynthesis and Cell respiration 94 - 95; 110 - 111

Week 11: 
Chromosome structure pages 61; 128; 141
Nucleic acids (DNA, RNA) pages 46; 190 - 191; 194 - 197
Molecular genetics (protein synthesis) pages 200 - 210


Week 12:
The cell cycle: Mitosis pages 126 - 137
Gametogenesis: Meiosis pages 138 - 151
The Scientific method pages 12 - 15

Week 13: 
Mendelian genetics pages 152 -160
Non-Mendelian genetics pages 161 - 169; pages 560 - 561

Week 14: 
Chromosomal aberrations pages 178 - 189

Week 15 through 17:
Darwinian evolution pages 10 - 11; pages 238 - 245
Population genetics pages 10 - 11; pages 248 - 249
Evolution pages 246 - 289