This is meant to be a capstone class, and I guess it's fine for that purpose. You really only do work for this class for the first 7 or 8 weeks of the semester and after that you have to take a standardized biology test that no one has heard of and no real study guides exist for. But not to worry because it's all made up of pretty basic intro bio stuff. Also you can fail it without failing the class, unlike a proper final, but it will still affect your grade.

No. It was busy work.

Just make sure you get all the stuff done on time in the first half of the semester and then you can slide for the second half until it's time for the MFT.