Intro to Bio class

<p>Apperently, I have to take a lab class for one of my degree requirements.</p>

<p>What all does this entel generally?</p>

<p>I have issues with being around chemicals (they make me really ill), and I don't think we'd have to do that, however, I thought I might ask to see what you guys think...</p>

<p>You typically don’t deal too much with chemicals in an intro bio class.
The lecture is going to cover a lot of material that you might not need if you are a non-science major. Does your school have science classes for non-majors that are less intensive?</p>

<p>This is the nonmajor one. Its between this one, chem, geo (which is an all weekend event every week), and astrology (8-11pm).</p>

<p>I mean, I don’t mind. I’m double majoring in history/anthropology, so it would help some i would think.</p>

<p>Gotcha. I actually like intro bio but I hear people complaining about it all the time. It probably would have a bit of crossover with at least one of your anthropology classes if the bio class you’re taking cover evolution.</p>

<p>It shouldn’t be too hard, from what i understand. Part of me hopes that it will help my understanding of anthropology better (in biological terms :)).</p>

<p>I don’t take intro to bio (because I’m in the bio branch for my major) but I can give you an idea of what I’ve done in my two intro labs. </p>

<p>Cell bio involved more chemicals than populations but there was no strong smell. The worst smelling thing was the blood agar plates we had to do. The lab deals a lot with with cells and such (duh) so you deal with microscopes a lot. It is a lot of lab work.</p>

<p>Populations did a dissection, two or so uses of the microscope and was more focused on field studies.</p>

<p>Hmm, depends on your school, intro to bio can be anything. At my CC, intro to Bio (for science majors) was basically high school bio all over again, whereas at my university, intro to bio is cell biology for the first quarter (no labs), population genetics and ecology for the 2nd quarter (lab involved. No dissections, just handling things and occasionally looking at things under the microscope), and phylogenetics for the 3rd quarter (lab involved. I’m currently taking 3rd quarter Intro Bio, so I can’t really comment on the lab portion. Still no chemicals involved).</p>