Course Descriptions
Description of courses offered in the summer of 2023 can be viewed at wallawalla.edu/academics/bulletins in the 2022-2023 Undergraduate Bulletin or Graduate Bulletin.
The following course is offered this summer but not published in 2022-2023 Bulletin.
BIOL 400 – MARINE ECOTAXICOLOGY (5 CR)
In this course we will discuss natural toxins produced by animals, plants, and microbes; emphasizing animals. We will begin this course by discussing the discipline of toxinology, focusing on classification and the terminology involved. We will then spend the majority of the semester taxonomically reviewing natural toxins, emphasizing the following questions:
1. What is the taxonomic distribution of venomous and otherwise chemically defended organisms? 2. What are the ecological roles of biological toxins? 3. How are the toxins produced/acquired,
maintained, and stored? 4. What are venoms, and other biological cocktails, composed of? 5. What is the pathophysiology of intoxication and its treatment? 6. Are there any actual/potential uses for
these toxins?