Biology vs Microbiology for nursing: can one replace the other?

Usually not. Nursing programs list it on its own line: UTMB asks for “Microbiology (Must include lab)”, and FSU lists “General Biology for Science Majors” and “General Microbiology and Lab” as two separate prerequisites. UPI Study does not offer Microbiology, so ask your program which microbiology courses it accepts.

It is a full science course, usually with a lab. Texas describes its pre-nursing version as covering “bacterial structure as well as growth, physiology, genetics, and biochemistry of microorganisms”, with the emphasis on “medical microbiology, infectious diseases, and public health”. Its science-majors version asks for General Chemistry I and a biology sequence for majors first. General biology first helps: Biology 100 covers cells, metabolism and genetics.

A little. Its first two chapters are Viruses and Prokaryotes and Protists, and NCCRS lists the outcome “discuss microbial life, including the characteristics and diversity of bacteria and protists”. That is an introduction, not a microbiology course: it has no chapter on infectious disease or public health, and no lab.

Intro to Biology 1: NCCRS recommends 3 semester hours, lower division, in Biology I and II among other subjects; ACE recommends 3 (ACE ID UPIS-0009). Intro to Biology 2: NCCRS recommends 3 semester hours, lower division, in Biology I and II among other subjects; ACE recommends 3 (ACE ID UPIS-0027). Anatomy and Physiology I: NCCRS recommends 3 semester hours, lower division, in Biology among other subjects.

Intro to Biology 1: Biology I and II, Ecology, Natural Science, or Integrated Science. Intro to Biology 2: Biology I and II, Ecology, Natural Science, or Integrated Science. Anatomy and Physiology I: Biology, Life Science, or Biological Science. Your college decides which requirement each one fills.

Intro to Biology 1: 15 chapters and 66 instructional hours. Intro to Biology 2: 16 chapters and 73 instructional hours. Anatomy and Physiology I: 17 chapters and 58 instructional hours. All three are self-paced, so you finish as fast or as slow as you want.

None of the three syllabi list a prerequisite, so you can start with any of them.

Intro to Biology 1: 118 multiple-choice questions, 50% of the grade. Intro to Biology 2: 100 multiple-choice questions, 50% of the grade. Anatomy and Physiology I: 100 multiple-choice questions, 25% of the grade.

Yes, as a separate course: Anatomy and Physiology I Lab (Biology 211L), 2 semester hours recommended by NCCRS. A lab course is graded on lab reports (70%) and quizzes (30%), with no final exam, and can be taken on its own.

Intro to Biology 1: Clark, Mary Ann, Matthew Douglas, and Jung Choi. Biology 2e. OpenStax, 2018. Intro to Biology 2: Clark, Mary Ann, Matthew Douglas, and Jung Choi. Biology 2e. OpenStax. Anatomy and Physiology I: Betts, J. Gordon, et al. Anatomy and Physiology 2e. OpenStax, 2022 (optional), with other references.

Intro to Biology 1: yes, ACE ID UPIS-0009, 3 semester hours. Intro to Biology 2: yes, ACE ID UPIS-0027, 3 semester hours. Anatomy and Physiology I: NCCRS only. ACE listings run three years and UPI Study renews them as they end; credit you have earned stays valid for 10 years.

Anatomy and Physiology I Lab. In the “Before nursing or health programs” order on the Science and labs courses page, it follows Anatomy and Physiology I. Your program may set its own order.

Yes: every UPI Study course is its own enrollment, so you can take Intro to Biology 1 without any other course and transfer it by itself.

No. Open-book is fine for the Intro to Biology 1 quizzes and assignment, but the final is proctored: lightly, with no camera, once you are at 70% or more, and fully otherwise.

ACE and NCCRS have over 2,100 cooperating colleges that will consider accepting credits; the final decision is with the universities. ACE recommends 3 semester hours for each (ACE IDs UPIS-0009 and UPIS-0027), and NCCRS recommends 3 each in Biology I and II, Ecology, Natural Science, or Integrated Science. Anatomy and Physiology I is NCCRS only: 3 semester hours in Biology, Life Science, or Biological Science. Search your school in Find My College and ask your registrar which course each would count as. It helps to name the subject: NCCRS recommends Intro to Biology 1 in Biology I and II and Intro to Biology 2 in Biology I and II.