BIOL 427 - Developmental Biology

Units: 4
Three hours lecture and three hours laboratory per week
Prerequisite: BIOL 300 with a grade of C or better and CHEM 122
This course will use descriptive, experimental and comparative approaches in the study of animal development. Developmental stages including gametogenesis, fertilization, cleavage, gastrulation and organogenesis will be discussed in a variety of animal phyla. The molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying morphogenesis and the evolutionary conservation of developmental mechanisms in various animal phyla will be examined.
Lab fee $40