An Introduction to Science and Biology for Non Majors
An Introduction to Science and Biology for Non Majors
An Introduction to Science and Biology for Non Majors
The
organization of this course has been driven by the goal of providing non-majors
with a coherent picture of modern biological knowledge. To accomplish this goal
it’s necessary that each student gains an appreciation of the nature of science
and is introduced to the integrated view of our world that modern science has
produced. To facilitate this the course is divided into four parts : The Nature
of Science, Defining Science, The Epistemic Values of Science, The Origin of
Modern Science, Science as a Profession, The Conceptual Framework of Biology,
Cosmological Evolution, Natural Levels of Organization in the Physical World,
Biological Evolution, Life as a Chemical Function Biochemistry and Genetics, The
Modern Synthesis Darwin and Mendel, The Integration of Biological Knowledge,
Geologic Time, The Origin of our Solar System, The Origin of Life
Photosynthesis, Aerobic Respiration, Endosymbiosis and Eukaryotic Cells, The
Classification of Life, Sexual Reproduction, Multicellularity, Adaptive
Radiations and Mass Extinctions, Vertebrate, Evolution, Human Evolution, Biology
and Society, Science and Ethics, Human Population Growth, The Sixth Extinction.
This note describes the following topics: modeling, Growth, Number of parameters, Steady
states and linearized stability analysis, More modelling examples, Geometric
analysis, Epidemiology, Chemical kinetics, Multi stability, Periodic behavior,
PDE models, Diffusion, Steady state behavior of PDE, Traveling wave solutions of
reaction diffusion systems.
This book explains the following topics: Introduction to Biology and the
Process of Science, Biologically Important Molecules, Cell Structure and
Function, Structure and Function of the Cell Membrane and an Introduction to
Energy, Cellular Respiration, Photosynthesis, Reproduction at the Cellular
Level, Patterns of Inheritance, DNA replication and Protein Synthesis ,
Introduction Evolution.
This PDF
covers the following topics related to Mathematical Systems Biology : Difference
Equations, Deterministic ODE models, Deterministic PDE Models, Stochastic
kinetics, Review of ordinary differential equations.
This book covers the following topics: Cellular Foundation of
Life,Biologically Important Molecules, Cell Structure and Function, Cell
Division and Genetics, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Evolution and
Introduction to Biotechnology.
The
organization of this course has been driven by the goal of providing non-majors
with a coherent picture of modern biological knowledge. To accomplish this goal
it’s necessary that each student gains an appreciation of the nature of science
and is introduced to the integrated view of our world that modern science has
produced. To facilitate this the course is divided into four parts : The Nature
of Science, Defining Science, The Epistemic Values of Science, The Origin of
Modern Science, Science as a Profession, The Conceptual Framework of Biology,
Cosmological Evolution, Natural Levels of Organization in the Physical World,
Biological Evolution, Life as a Chemical Function Biochemistry and Genetics, The
Modern Synthesis Darwin and Mendel, The Integration of Biological Knowledge,
Geologic Time, The Origin of our Solar System, The Origin of Life
Photosynthesis, Aerobic Respiration, Endosymbiosis and Eukaryotic Cells, The
Classification of Life, Sexual Reproduction, Multicellularity, Adaptive
Radiations and Mass Extinctions, Vertebrate, Evolution, Human Evolution, Biology
and Society, Science and Ethics, Human Population Growth, The Sixth Extinction.