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BIOL 200

Diversity of Life

3.00 units · Undergraduate

Winter 2026

Topics

  • Diversity of life
  • systematics
  • viruses
  • bacteria and archaea
  • eukaryotic origins and structure
  • reproduction
  • protists
  • evolutionary relationships
  • invertebrate diversity.

Readings

  • Required: Urry et al., Campbell’s Biology, 3rd or 4th Canadian edition (source lists 2021/2024), Campbell/Pearson; Diversity of Life, instructor-modified textbook, McGraw Hill. Second-hand copies are acceptable.
Winter 2025

Topics

  • Systematics and Viruses
  • Prokaryotes: Bacteria (I)
  • Prokaryotes: Bacteria (II) and Archaea
  • Origin, Evolution and Classification of Land Plants
  • Tutorial 2 Natural Selection
  • Evolution of the Seed Plants
  • Origin and Evolution of the Angiosperms
  • Overview: Evolutionary Trends and Synthesis
  • including bacteria, archaea, algae, fungi, plants, and invertebrate and vertebrate animals
  • Relationships
  • Biodiversity
  • Invertebrates
  • Learning

Readings

  • Required: Course Textbooks Edition(s) Publisher
Winter 2024

Topics

  • Systematics and Viruses
  • Prokaryotes: Bacteria (I)
  • Prokaryotes: Bacteria (II)
  • Origin, Evolution and
  • Evolution of the Seed
  • Origin and Evolution of
  • Trends and Synthesis
  • including bacteria, archaea, algae, fungi, plants, and invertebrate and vertebrate animals
  • Relationships
  • Biodiversity
  • Invertebrates
  • Ecology
  • Natural selection
  • Learning

Readings

  • Required: Course Textbooks Edition(s) Publisher
2023

Topics

  • Introduction to Systematics, and the Diversity of Life
  • Viruses, Bacteria and Archaea
  • Plants: Origin, Evolution, and Structure
  • Evolution of the Seed Plants
  • Angiosperms: Origin, Evolution and Reproduction
  • Basic biology and diversity of vertebrates
  • Relationships
  • Zoology
Winter 2022

Topics

  • Introduction to Systematics, and the Diversity of Life
  • Viruses, Bacteria and Archaea
  • Plants: Origin, Evolution, and Structure
  • Evolution of the Seed Plants
  • Angiosperms: Origin, Evolution and Reproduction
  • Basic biology and diversity of vertebrates
  • Relationships
  • Zoology
2020-2021

Topics

  • Introduction to Systematics, and the Diversity of Life
  • Viruses, Bacteria and Archaea
  • Vascular Plants: Origin, Evolution, and Structure
  • Evolution of the Seed Plants
  • Angiosperms: Origin, Evolution and Reproduction
  • Basic biology and diversity of vertebrates
  • Relationships
2019-2020

Topics

  • Introduction to Systematics, and the Diversity of Life
  • Viruses, Bacteria and Archaea
  • Vascular Plants: Origin, Evolution, and Structure
  • Evolution of the Seed Plants
  • Angiosperms: Origin, Evolution and Reproduction
  • Basic biology and diversity of vertebrates
  • Relationships
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