BIO at University of Maine

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate BIO coursework.

• BIO 200Biology of Organismsopens 42 courses (26.3 directly)
• BMB 280Introduction to Molecular and Cellular Biologyopens 9 courses (0.5 directly)
• BIO 208Anatomy and Physiologyopens 8 courses (2.8 directly)
• BIO 219General Ecologyopens 5 courses (3.5 directly)
• BIO 118Animal Lifeopens 5 courses (2.5 directly)
• BIO 326General Entomologyopens 3 courses (2 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate BIO work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 76 BIO and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 22 more BIO courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in BIO. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at BIO 378

  1. BIO 100Basic Biology
  2. BMB 280Introduction to Molecular and Cellular Biology
  3. BIO 208Anatomy and Physiology
  4. BIO 311Animal Ecophysiology
  5. BIO 378Medical Physiology Laboratory

• 5 courses deep, ending at BIO 437

  1. BIO 100Basic Biology
  2. BIO 200Biology of Organisms
  3. BIO 219General Ecology

• 5 courses deep, ending at BIO 483

  1. BIO 100Basic Biology
  2. BMB 280Introduction to Molecular and Cellular Biology
  3. BIO 208Anatomy and Physiology

• 4 courses deep, ending at BIO 331

  1. BIO 100Basic Biology
  2. BIO 200Biology of Organisms
  3. BIO 329Vertebrate Biology

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for BIO yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under BIO yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

BIO does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the UMaine campus feed.