Laboratory 30 hours. Usually offered spring quarter. This upper division lecture and laboratory course is an advanced course focused on the molecular basis of cellular processes. Basic molecular biology topics are covered, including the structure of DNA and proteins, DNA replication, DNA mutation and repair, transcription, and translation. Students also learn about protein sorting, chromatin, and cancer, with many lectures also focusing on the regulation of gene expression in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
Several lectures are also devoted to recombinant DNA technology.
Problem sets assigned in this course require the student to assimilate information learned in lecture and apply it to solve problems. In the laboratory, students are exposed to basic recombinant DNA techniques. Laboratory 30 hours. Usually offered spring quarter. This is an intensive new laboratory course in which undergraduate students participate in a supervised research project.