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Course Info for BIOL - 224 - 01, Spring 2025
Class number: 2081 Title: Genetics Department: Biology
Career: Undergraduate Component: Lecture Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 45 Current enrollment: 21 Available seats: 24
Start date: Tuesday, January 21, 2025 End date: Friday, May 9, 2025 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: MWF: 11:00AM-11:50AM, MECC - 232 Instructor(s): Fleming, Robert
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: C- or better in Biology 183L or permission of instructor.
Distribution Requirement: Meets Natural Science Requirement
Course Description:
A study of the basic principles of genetics including the transmission and organization of the genetic material in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, the molecular biology of nucleic acids and information transfer, mutation and mutagenesis, and gene regulation. Laboratory will include techniques of genetic analysis in plants, fungi, and Drosophila. Selected experiments in cytogenetics, molecular genetics, and the genetics of bacteria and bacteria phage. This course may be taken without laboratory by registering for only Biology 224-01.