BSC 2005

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Biological Sciences

3 credits

Offered: Fall, Spring & Summer

Biology

Gen Ed: Biological Sciences

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Do not delay. UF lists this in critical tracking for 4 majors, and 71 courses sit downstream of it in the prerequisite graph. Pushing it back can push back everything behind it.

Why students take this

From UF's official model plans and critical tracking, aggregated by TrackPilot.

Scheduled in 5 of 81 UF model plans, usually in semester 2 (freshman year) and part of critical tracking for 4 majors.

Computer Engineering

Communication Sciences and Disorders

Family, Youth and Community Sciences

Interdisciplinary Studies, Environmental Management in Agriculture and Natural Resources

Public Health

Prerequisites

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No prerequisites. Open to take anytime.

Common alternatives

Courses students weigh against this one (TrackPilot-curated; confirm against your major's requirements).

BSC 2010 · Integrated Principles of Biology 1

Non-majors biology (gen-ed only) vs majors biology. Pre-health and life-science majors need BSC 2010; BSC 2005 will not substitute.

Usually taken with

Courses UF model plans put in the same semester as BSC 2005.

What it unlocks

71 courses list this as a prerequisite (directly or downstream).

ALS 3133 · Agricultural and Environmental Quality

ANS 3006 · Introduction to Animal Science

BOT 3151C · Local Flora of North Florida

BOT 3503 · Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants

ENY 3005 · Principles of Entomology

ENY 3451C · Insect Behavior

ENY 4201 · Insect Ecology

ENY 4201L · Insect Ecology Lab

ENY 4210 · Insects and Wildlife

ENY 4455C · Social Insects

ENY 4571 · Honey Bee Biology

ENY 4573 · Beekeeping I

ENY 4823 · Molecular Biology of Insects and Nematodes

EVS 3000 · Environmental Science 1

FAS 4274 · Freshwater Ecology

HSC 4507 · Environmental Toxicology Applications in Public Health

HUN 2201 · Fundamentals of Human Nutrition

OTH 3416 · Pathophysiology

PHC 4309 · Climate Change, the Environment, and the Future of Public Health

SWS 3022L · Introduction to Soils in the Environment Laboratory

SWS 4223 · Environmental Biogeochemistry

SWS 4303C · Soil Microbial Ecology

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