2024-2025 Catalog

BIO-254 Marine Biology

Introduction to the marine environment, its organisms and their specific adaptations. Emphasis on marine and estuarine ecology, intertidal habits, trophic relations, and physiology. Human impacts on the sea: fisheries, mariculture, pollution, introduced species, climate change and seawater acidification, and law of the sea.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Student has satisfied all of the following Student has completed all of the following course(s) BIO 111 - Introduction to the Cell, BIO L111 - Intro to the Cell Laboratory Or Student has satisfied all of the following Student has completed all of the following course(s) BIO 114 - Organismal Biology, BIO L114 - Organismal Biology Laboratory

Offered

Fall