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University of Toronto Mississauga

BIO318Y5

Animal Behaviour

Credit1
InstructorR. Murray
Prerequisite1 requirement, 1 options
Total contact hours48 lecture · 72 practical
Evidence2 terms · 1 syllabus
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BIO318Y5

What do I need?

These are the weights from the syllabus we have. Yours might be a bit different depending on your term and instructor, so feel free to change anything that doesn't match.

AssessmentGrade %Weight %
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You need 80.2% across the remaining 99.74% to finish at 80%.

What was the average?

B+

3.3 GPA across 2 observed terms. Most recent: Fall 2022 - Winter 2023.

How is it graded?

63 components

From the Fall 2026 syllabus. 63 graded components.

How confident is this?

Med

A small number of terms, so read it as a range. The most recent observation is several years old.

From the calendar

Official source · University of Toronto Mississauga

This course covers the adaptive behaviours of organisms resulting from interactions with their biological environment, exploring why animals behave in specific ways and the mechanisms underlying these behaviours.

Exclusions
BIO328H5PSY252H5PSY352H5
Contact hours
48 lecture · 72 practical
Total scheduled hours for the course, not per week.

Any one of these

BIO152H5 and BIO153H5

What people actually got

Last observed Fall 2022 - Winter 2023
B+

3.3 GPA

2 terms observed

n = 2student contributedMississauga offerings only

This is a student-contributed aggregate, not an official University of Toronto record. It is also not a measure of how hard the course is — a course average moves with who enrols in it, not only with the material.

The newest observation is from Fall 2022 - Winter 2023. Instructors, weighting and exam format may all have changed since — treat this as history, not a forecast.

This rests on 2 reported terms. It is shown because hiding it would not make it less true, but one or two results are a datapoint, not a distribution — a single unusual cohort moves this number a long way.

Where the marks come from

Fall 2026 syllabus
Term Test 1 · 10%Term Test 2 · 10%Writing Assignment · 10%Midterm 1 · 5%Midterm 2 · 5%Lab 1 · 1.72%Lab 10 · 1.72%Lab 11 · 1.72%Lab 12 · 1.72%Lab 13 · 1.72%Lab 14 · 1.72%Lab 15 · 1.72%Lab 16 · 1.72%Lab 17 · 1.72%Lab 18 · 1.72%Lab 19 · 1.72%Lab 2 · 1.72%Lab 20 · 1.72%Lab 21 · 1.72%Lab 22 · 1.72%Lab 23 · 1.72%Lab 24 · 1.72%Lab 25 · 1.72%Lab 26 · 1.72%Lab 27 · 1.72%Lab 28 · 1.72%Lab 29 · 1.72%Lab 3 · 1.72%Lab 4 · 1.72%Lab 5 · 1.72%Lab 6 · 1.72%Lab 7 · 1.72%Lab 8 · 1.72%Lab 9 · 1.72%Guest Lecture Quiz 1 · 0.34%Guest Lecture Quiz 10 · 0.34%Guest Lecture Quiz 11 · 0.34%Guest Lecture Quiz 12 · 0.34%Guest Lecture Quiz 13 · 0.34%Guest Lecture Quiz 14 · 0.34%Guest Lecture Quiz 15 · 0.34%Guest Lecture Quiz 16 · 0.34%Guest Lecture Quiz 17 · 0.34%Guest Lecture Quiz 18 · 0.34%Guest Lecture Quiz 19 · 0.34%Guest Lecture Quiz 2 · 0.34%Guest Lecture Quiz 20 · 0.34%Guest Lecture Quiz 21 · 0.34%Guest Lecture Quiz 22 · 0.34%Guest Lecture Quiz 23 · 0.34%Guest Lecture Quiz 24 · 0.34%Guest Lecture Quiz 25 · 0.34%Guest Lecture Quiz 26 · 0.34%Guest Lecture Quiz 27 · 0.34%Guest Lecture Quiz 28 · 0.34%Guest Lecture Quiz 29 · 0.34%Guest Lecture Quiz 3 · 0.34%Guest Lecture Quiz 4 · 0.34%Guest Lecture Quiz 5 · 0.34%Guest Lecture Quiz 6 · 0.34%Guest Lecture Quiz 7 · 0.34%Guest Lecture Quiz 8 · 0.34%Guest Lecture Quiz 9 · 0.34%

Extracted from a published Fall 2026 syllabus — verified against the university's own document. Components that could not be labelled are shown unresolved rather than folded into a neighbouring category.

What we don’t have yet

A current averageThe newest verified observation is from Fall 2022 - Winter 2023. Later terms have no confirmed result yet.
Per-term breakdownHeld back deliberately. Splitting 2 observations across terms would be false precision.
Instructor-level detailAverages are not split by instructor. At these sample sizes the difference between sections is noise, not signal.
Archive coveragePyko holds no past paper for this course. We do not host or distribute course files in any case; the archive is what lets these pages describe how a course is assessed.

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ClaimSourceCapturedStatus
Course description, prerequisites, exclusions, contact hoursUniversity of Toronto Mississauga2026-07-25public fact
Historical average across 2 termsStudent contributions, consented2026-07-25user contributed aggregate
Grading structure, description and credit weight from the official Fall 2026 syllabus (instructor: R. Murray)Official Fall 2026 course syllabus (University of Toronto Mississauga)2026-09-05official syllabus

Page last verified 2026-09-05. A claim whose source moves is withdrawn before it goes stale.

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