This document summarizes an online bioscience course for IT professionals. The course covers the basics of life through a molecular biology lens over several video lectures. It discusses that life can be defined by growth, metabolism, reproduction and adaptation. The basic unit of life is the cell, which comes in two types - prokaryotic and eukaryotic. All life on Earth is related through evolution from a common ancestor over 3.5 billion years ago. Life functions according to the central dogma of DNA to RNA to protein, with proteins acting as enzymes and molecular machines.