LIFE SCIENCE 15 BOOK FOR SALE
$90 OBO willing to negotiate

Comes with Mean Genes, graded midterm, graded quizzes, weekly questions plus answers, and study guides for midterm and final

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Selling what is life? Loose leaf book for life science 15!

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I am selling book for life science 15!!

Good condition as well as good lecture notes and other study guides provided !!

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Overall he is a good professor !!! Just need to study tour butt of!

Such an awesome/interesting professor!

Class break down:
*1 Midterm
*1 Final
*Weekly Quizzes (There is 8 and your lowest score gets dropped + the questions are handed out a week before so you can prepare the answers! These questions are free response, but don't underestimate their ability to drastically change your grade.)
*1 group debate

The curve is SOOOOOOOO generous!! So if you're not a biology person, this is the class for you. Makes bio fun :)

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Greatest class you'll take at UCLA!! I didn't really want to take this class because I don't like bio, but it was absolutely amazing. The professor teaches every concept very clearly and you can follow along very easily. He's not one of those professors who just throws out information to you. He presents it in a way that you can really internalize the concepts and use them in your own life. I learned so many cool facts that I would have never learned if I was a science major. Take it!

Phelan is the greatest. Lectures are genuinely engaging, as is course material. I took this class as a non-LS major and still greatly enjoyed it. If you attend lecture the material is covered, but the readings, especially "What is Life," do a good job of supplementing lectures. Mean Genes is also an interesting read if nothing else.

I would highly recommend this class as a fairly easy Life Science GE which you will genuinely get something out of, and Phelan is a truly fantastic professor.

Phelan wants to make this science class fun for non-science people. Pretty much, if you're a science person, this class will be unicorns and rainbows for you. Superrrr fun. Lecture is very enjoyable with many laughs. Time flies by.

Discussion sections weren't very helpful. I thought they were a waste of time, but they usually end 30 minutes early so it's not too bad. Discussion is kind of mandatory as well if you want a good grade because the quizzes and participation points are a pretty hefty chunk of your grade.

Topics covered (based on memory - probably not going to list all of them):

1. Natural selection
2. Heritability
3. Genetics
4. Nutrition

Readings:

Super fun to read. I read them when I was bored rather than to actually study...The textbook definitely covers the topics in more detail than you actually need. You only need to know the super basics. For the genetics section, the most complex thing was the punnett square, which you learn in high school lol. 70%-80% of the stuff covered in this class you probably learned in high school biology.

Class structure:
1. 20 points participation
2. 40 points debate
3. 150 points midterm
4. 250 points final
5. 84 points weekly quizzes (there are eight 12-point quizzes and you drop your lowest score)
6. 30 points Prep-U (An online quiz thing that's graded based on completion)

I thought the participation and debate were rather subjective (but not super subjective lol). If you do a good job, you should get the points. I rose my hand during discussion to the point where I wasn't getting called on anymore, but I still got a 90% in participation. I'm just bitter lol. Don't worry too much about these two. The debate doesn't require too much preparation, but you need to know what you're talking about. Spend maybe like 2-3 days preparing and you're good to go. The quizzes are pretty easy. The questions are the same as the ones given on the weekly problem set. Any of the harder questions probably won't be quizzed. I usually just prepared answers for all of them in case though lol. You can probably find the answers to the quizzes from people who took the class before. If you can't find anyone, just look for the answers in the appropriate section of the textbook or do a little Google searching. Just as a little tip for the class, know your hypothesis testing steps in detail (observation, prediction, hypothesis, experiment, conclusion). You need to know it for the midterm and final most likely. And they might quiz you on it for the first quiz as well because it's important lol.

Exams:

GO TO THE TEST BANK. Not kidding. Do thisssss. The graders grade friggin' crazy on the free-response section. I was looking through previous midterms and was like "why did they take off 50% on this question...the person answered it pretty well". A person who I thought should've gotten like a B on the midterm would end up with a D (without the curve). If you print out like all possible past midterms, probably around 15/20 of the multiple choice questions will be the same as the ones on the actual midterm. The free-response section might have 2-4 of the same questions or very similar ones. Looking over past midterms will give you an idea of what the graders want...and will save you from losing a few points to tricky multiple choice questions lol. I can't say much about the final because I didn't do very well lol. Just make sure you GO TO LECTURE or watch the podcasts (they're fun anyway). Listening to lecture is the only way you'll know what will be covered on the exams. That way you won't be reading the textbook and memorizing stuff you don't actually need to know. They said Prep-U was supposed to prepare you for the exams, but it didn't lol. Only like 1 Prep-U question was on the midterm and most of the questions are things you didn't learn in class and won't learn in class.

Midterm grade: A+
Final exam grade: A-

Final grade: A

Highly recommend this class (especially if you're a science person)!