Courses numbered at the 500 level are open to both graduate education students and advanced undergraduate biology majors or minors. Three hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory each week. In addition to learning basic research laboratory skills, students will learn to isolate and purify DNA, analyze DNA by restriction enzyme digestion and gel electrophoresis, label DNA by nick translation reactions, and perform non-radioactive detection of Southern blot analyses. Lectures and laboratories are held in joint sessions. Offered during summer sessions.
Special emphasis is placed on population dynamics, community ecology, and reproductive behavior.
One Saturday field trip to observe coastal breeding colonies is required. Three hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory each week. Three hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory each week. Emphasis is placed on their collection, identification, classification, distribution, and ecology. Three hours lecture and three hours laboratory each week.