Addresses pollution, consumer society links with the crisis of biodiversity loss. Optional laboratory exemplifies the dominant issues in the course topics by mens of field studies and selected site visits. Three hours lecture, three hours laboratory. Development of living organisms from the fertilized egg to establishment of organ systems. Topics include fertilization, gastrulation, neurulation, regulation of development, cell commitment, morphogenesis, induction, and laying down of organ systems.
Laboratory includes morphological observations and individual experimental projects.
Three hours lecture, three hours laboratory, one hour seminar. Results are discussed in seminar. Three hours lecture, three hours laboratory. Physical and chemical basis of heredity. Laboratory may include Mendelian and population genetics, cytogenetics, DNA analysis, electrophoresis, PCR, mapping techniques.