Review of basic essential concepts such as real numbers, Cartesian coordinates in a plane, circles, straight lines, parabolas, trigonometric functions, and exponential and logarithmic functions. Differentiation, derivatives of functions, rules of differentiation, rates of change, analysis of functions (curve sketching), and derivatives of trigonometric and exponential functions. Integration, indefinite and definite integrals. Introduction to statistics, probability, random variables and probability distributions. Mathematical expectation, mean of a random variable, variance (standard deviation) Discrete probability distribution, normal distribution.

This course is designed to introduce students to some basic mathematical concepts such as differentiation and integration, and to enhance their ability to treat biological problems as well as their ability to present, analyze and interpret data using tables and graphs. Also, the objective of the course is to expose the students to elements of probability and probability distributions, linear regression and correlation, analysis of variance, design of statistical experiments, and statistical quality control.