A one year high-school chemistry course of sufficient depth and rigor to enable the student to participate in the study of the molecular aspects of biology. Course includes lecture and laboratory. Organismic and population biology with emphasis on organismal diversity, structural and functional strategies of organisms, ecological and behavioral relationships, and evolutionary mechanisms. The diversity of adaptive specialization based on the fundamental unity of life is the theme of the course.
Course includes lecture and laboratory.
Basic principles of Mendelian genetics, cytogenetics, molecular genetics, human genetics and evolution are examined. Introduction to measurement theory as applied to biological studies. Data acquiition, analysis, and display procedures. Lectures supplemented by problem solving sessions. Topics include gene structure, coding, regulation, protein syn- thesis, mutation, recombination, recombinant DNA technology, tranposable elements and chromosome structure.