Emphasis on the biology, ecology, and life histories of marine invertebrates, marine vertebrates, and algae. Fall, odd years. 4 hours Fundamental principles of physiology as related to higher plants. Includes water relations, soils and mineral nutrition, metabolism with emphasis on photosynthesis, plant growth, regulation, and development. Spring, odd years.
Students also participate in related group projects.
Spring, even years. A laboratory course that will introduce the student to DNA and how it can be analyzed through restriction digestion, transformation, and recombination. Topics will include the isolation of bacterial DNA, the use of restriction nucleases, restriction fragment analysis, recombination of restriction fragments into antibiotic-resistant plasmids, and the transfer of antibiotic resistance by transformation. Inheritance patterns, chromosomal genetics, and storage and readout of genetic information at the molecular level. An evolutionary and comparative morphological study of the organ systems in the phyla Chordata.