Prepare a Reflective Essay in which you address each of the following items:

1. Describe how you improved your knowledge, skills, abilities, and yourself in this session through this course.
2. Evaluate the work you did during the session for the class and explain ways you could have performed better.
3. Identify topics you did not understand or successfully implement and suggest how to improve the course material on those topics.
4. Identify ways to measure the future effects of what you have learned in this course or your future progress/improvement.
5. State whether you achieved the course outcomes (listed on the Module 6 Home page and course Syllabus page).

 Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to satisfy the following outcomes:

• Module 1
• Explain the structure and function of cells.
• Examine the utility of the scientific method.
• Module 2
• Explain chemical processes that maintain organization within cells.
• Explain metabolism and energy conversion in living systems.
• Module 3
• Identify characteristics used to classify organisms by modern taxonomy.
• Identify evolutionary relationships between taxonomic groups.
• Module 4
• Explain the principles underlying genetics and inheritance.
• Identify the structure of DNA and the implications of mutations in the genetic code.
• Module 5
• Describe the relationship between adaptation, natural selection, and the theory of evolution.
• Identify relationships between organisms and their physical environment.
• Identify the characteristics of habitats and populations within ecosystems.
• Module 6
• Integrate and reflect upon the course materials.