{"id":25626,"date":"2025-09-20T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vividscience.org\/?page_id=25626"},"modified":"2025-09-21T21:28:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T21:28:41","slug":"course-topics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vividscience.org\/index.php\/campus-envirobio\/welcome\/discovery\/course-topics\/","title":{"rendered":"0a2 Course Topics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n \n Course Topics <\/span>\n\n \n \n Biodiversity, Ecology, & Conservation Biology <\/span>\n <\/h1>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Course Topics Objectives<\/strong><\/h3> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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  • Describe the characteristics of life and list the hierarchy of life from atoms to the Earth\u2019s biosphere.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Define this course\u2019s topics of biodiversity, ecology, and conservation biology, including how they relate to barnacles and bees.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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    Before we talk about the three topics covered in this course, we are going to step back and talk about life itself.\u00a0 We are still finding new species on earth, both microscopic organisms like bacteria and macroscopic organisms like insects and fish.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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    Various space agencies are also exploring our solar system (and beyond) for possible life outside of Earth.\u00a0 Pieces of indirect evidence are emerging, and now Venus is also under active consideration.\u00a0 We will discuss the possibilities of extraterrestrial life in a later Guide.<\/p>\n

    Now, more than ever, we are trying to come up with a clear definition for life.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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    This video introduces the basic characteristics of life as we know it.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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