Goals for the course is to provide an overview of the origin, systematics and evolution of living organisms on earth.

The student will be presented for general morphological traits in central phyla through lectures and lab courses. Classical dissection and microscopy techniques will be used to demonstrate the morphological structures and biosystematiske details of selected plants and animals. Microbial detection methods will be used to characterize and identify selected prokaryotes.

The course includes extensive laboratory courses.

For students to continue with the subject BIO102 will be required to attend field courses belonging to BIO102 at the end of the spring semester.

• have a basic understanding of how organisms have evolved over time through Earth's history.
• be able to reconstruct how simple life forms have evolved into more complex and multicellular forms.
• possess an overview of the section of the main groups in the tree of life (domains, ranges and phyla).
• have basic knowledge about the morphology and characteristics of the key taxa.
• apply this knowledge to understand the individual biosystematic location, evolutionary path and kinship of the key taxa.
• have knowledge about basic identification tools used to identify and classify central organism groups.