Very minimal homework, but very difficult and content heavy tests. If you miss one lecture, you are pretty much screwed unless you find another way to teach it to yourself. Assignments are very rare, only when an exam is near.

Plants, bugs, cells, bacteria. If you're not interested in it, it probably will be boring. Even if it's not your main focus in school, it can be interesting to learn, though. Many kids are pre-med, so they get frustrated about "when will this be about medicine and anatomy" but it can be interesting if you let it be.

Super nice and cool guy. He really knows his stuff and can answer pretty much any question and apply concepts in really great ways because of his knowledge and experience. He often goes on tangents, though, so a lot of the content found on the tests must be learned outside of class or in SI meetings.

You have to go to every lecture. The lecture is the study guide. His slides won't mean anything to you if you aren't in class. The tests have application questions that are very difficult and most likely require just guessing.