An evolutionary survey of the morphology, taxonomy, life histories and biological relationships of all plant groups comprising the plant kingdom. Lecture, two hours; laboratory, two hours.

This course will explore the selective forces influencing animal behavior, such as foraging, predator avoidance, mate choice, parental care, and social interaction. Specific phenomena to be explored include the evolution of optimal foraging and search images, extravagant male characteristics, female preferences, conflicts between the sexes, infanticide, parent-offspring conflict, dominance hierarchies, optimal group size, altruism, and eusociality. The study of these behaviors integrates ideas and approaches from ecology, genetics, physiology, and psychology.

Basic principles of plant physiology; the physiological processes of green plants and the effect of the environment on these processes. Lecture, three hours; laboratory, three hours per week.

Mechanisms of evolutionary change, with a brief summary of historical evolution, especially of the Metazoa.

Physiological mechanisms by which animals cope with different environmental stresses. Osmoregulation, respiration, temperature regulation and tolerance, sensory reception, circulation, etc.

This course uses an evolutionary approach to examine behavior and life histories. Topics addressed include: the optimality approach, constraints on optimality, kin and group selection, predator and prey behaviors, social and mating behaviors, and life history evolution.

This course discusses the processes that determine population distributions and dynamics and community structure for both plants and animals. Topics addressed include: population regulation and population stability, community diversity and stability, ecological succession, population interactions (competition, predation, mutualism), coevolution, and the effects of spatial and temporal heterogeneity on population and community patterns.

An explanation of the processes which contribute to the development of the nervous system. Neurophysiological, cell biological and molecular approaches to cell differentiation, neuronal pathfinding and synapse formation and stabilization will be explored and discussed. Examples will be drawn from both vertebrate and invertebrate preparations.

An introductory course in physical chemistry for engineering students. Kinetic theory, thermodynamics, phase diagrams, colligative properties, electrochemistry, transport properties, kinetics, quantum theory, spectroscopy.

A course dealing with the concepts of inorganic chemistry with emphasis on atomic structure, periodicity, nomenclature, bonding, reaction mechanisms and acid-base theories.