This course provides a lecture and laboratory based introduction to the living world. Based on an evolutionary and phylogenetic worldview, the course will survey the living world from viruses to humans. Introductory treatments of prokaryote micro-organisms, protists, fungi, plants and animals will be presented with stress placed on their position in the tree of life and their ecological roles within ecosystems. The lecture course will be complimented by a series of laboratories in which students will become acquainted with key examples of each of the kingdoms studied.<br/><br/>Incompatible: 1151AES Biology and Biological Diversity; 1602ENV Botany and Zoology -- Course Website
