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

1. Describe the fundamental importance of evolution as a unifying concept in biology.
2. Describe the major taxonomic groups of living organisms.
3. Apply the scientific method to investigate elementary biological problems.
4. Diagram and describe the atomic structure of biologically important elements.
5. Explain the principles of chemical bonding and apply those principles to the formation and properties of both inorganic and organic molecules.
6. Describe the structure and function of enzymes and their roles in metabolic pathways.
7. Diagram a typical plant, animal and prokaryotic cell and label the component parts of each and explain their function.
8. Describe the processes by which materials move across the cell membrane and within the cell.
9. Describe the main events of cell division and relate these to the formation of new cells.
10. Apply the basic principles of inheritance and probability to the solution of genetic problems.
11. Describe the molecular aspects of the storage, expression, and transmission of genetic information.
12. Describe the recent developments in genetics and relate these to human welfare.
13. State the Hardy - Weinberg Law and discuss its relevance to evolution.
14. Describe the main features of the modern theory of evolution.