An overview of modern approaches to the classification and identification of living organisms, dealing with such topics as molecular evolution, the theory of biological systematics, phylogenetics, DNA fingerprinting, the Tree of Life and Barcoding projects, and bioinformatics. Antirequisite(s): Prerequisite(s): Biology 2581B and completion of at least 1.5 Biology courses at the 3000 level or above. Corequisite(s): Pre-or Corequisite(s): Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 2 tutorial hour, 0.5 course. back to top
