Two lectures and one laboratory per week. Adaptive functions, evolutionary history, control, and development of behavior in vertebrates and invertebrates. Laboratories focus on techniques of observation, experimental design and data analysis. Three hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory per week. Representative types emphasizing comparative morphology of various organ systems.
Laboratory work chiefly on dogfish, salamander and rabbit.
Two lectures and two three-hour laboratories per week. Selected studies in the biological sciences which are not offered presently in the curriculum of the department. Course may be repeated for different topics, but students may not take this course for credit under the same topic more than once. Emphasis on approaches currently being used to analyze the expression of genes. Examination of regulated gene expression and its relationship to cellular growth and differentiation.