Research methods emphasized in weekly laboratory. Consists of required sessions with and presentations from health care providers and researchers. Required of all premedical program participants during the sophomore and junior years, and is prerequisite for BY282, 382. Required of Premedical Program participants sophomore and junior years. Central independent project with hypothesis test and poster presentation.
Weekly laboratory emphasizes Mendelian genetics, recombinant DNA and cloning methods.
Emphasizes ecology, morphology and taxonomy. Weekly experimental labs. The preparatory course consists of lectures, individual field project identification, research proposal drafting and editing, training and preparation for field work. The field component emphasizes the execution of proposed research and data gathering with a portion devoted to surveying various tropical ecosystems and cultural experience. Data analysis, workup and public presentation will be conducted during the follow-up section of the course.