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3.00 Credits
PQ: Fourth-year standing and consent of director of undergraduate research and honors. Course must be taken for a quality grade and may be counted toward requirements for the biological sciences major. This seminar course is required of fourth-year students who are pursuing honors. The honors thesis is revised during the year and submitted third week of Spring Quarter. Students also participate in a poster session early in Spring Quarter. D. Nelson. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Fourth-year standing. Consent of research sponsor and director of undergraduate research and honors. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form. This course is available for quality grades or for P/F grades. This course does not meet requirements for the biological sciences major. In the first quarter of registration, students must submit Supplementary Information Forms to their research sponsor and the director of undergraduate research and honors. D. Nelson. Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Third- or fourth-year standing. This course does not meet requirements for the biological sciences major. Few of our policymakers are experts in economics, agronomy, food science, and molecular biology, yet all of these disciplines are essential for developing strategies to end world hunger. Choosing one country as a test case, we look at the history, politics, governmental structure, population demographics, and agricultural challenges. We then study the theory of world markets, global trade, and microeconomics of developing nations, as well as the promise and limitation of traditional breeding and biotechnology. J. Malamy. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Third- or fourth-year standing. This course does not meet requirements for the biological sciences major. Taught by an imaging scientist and an art historian, this course explores scientific, artistic, and cultural aspects of imaging from the earliest attempts to enhance and capture visual stimuli through the emergence of virtual reality systems in the late twentieth century. Topics include the development of early optical instruments (e.g., microscopes, telescopes), the invention of linear perspective, the discovery of means to visualize the invisible within the body, and the recent emergence of new media. We also consider the problem of instrumentally mediated seeing in the arts and sciences and its social implications for our image-saturated contemporary world. P. La Riviere, J. Elkins. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: BIOS 10110 or 10130. Invitation only. Completion of this course will be equivalent to one topics course. Under the mentorship and supervision of the Core Biology Lab Coordinator, students teach a Core Biology Lab section. Responsibilities include guiding students through laboratory exercises and giving short formal lectures on experimental rationale and protocol, data analysis, and scientific presentation. Students taking this course meet regularly with the coordinator throughout the quarter for guidance on these topics and periodic evaluation. M. McNulty. Winter, Spring. The courses that follow have a prerequisite of BIOS 10110 or 10130, or a score of 4 or 5 on the AP biology test. Attendance is required at the first class to confirm enrollment.
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3.00 Credits
What is life How does it work and evolve This course uses student-centered interactive learning in the lab, assigned readings from both the popular press and primary scientific literature, and directed writing exercises to explore the nature and functions of living organisms, their interactions with each other, and their environment. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Must be taken in sequence with BIOS 10501. This course examines the flow of energy through the human body-from what we eat to what we can do. Basic physiology, metabolism, and exercise concepts are covered from cells to systems. Students should be prepared to alter their diet and/or physical activity. This course is intended to be followed by BIOS 10501 (Metabolism and Nutrition). M. Osadjan, P. Strieleman. Winter. L.
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3.00 Credits
Must be taken in sequence with BIOS 10500. Taking a scientific approach to nutrition, this course covers nutritional requirements and why they are required for human health by exploring their function at the cellular and molecular level. Basic physiology concepts related to nutritional health covered, including digestive physiology and some aspects of endocrinology. As a continuation of the exercise concepts covered in BIOS 10501, the relationship between exercise and nutrition is considered. Students complete a dietary analysis of their food intake to critique their individual nutritional health. P. Strieleman. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: BIOS 10110 or 10130. This lecture/discussion course focuses on genetic variation among humans, its evolutionary causes, and the potential implications for disease susceptibility. Topics include human evolution, population and quantitative genetics, observed health differences, and the search for disease-susceptibility loci. Readings are drawn from a combination of primary sources, popular science magazines, and newspapers. M. Przeworski. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: BIOS 10110 or 10130. This course introduces the progress and problems in human genetics. Topics include genetic and physiologic determinants of sex, patterns of human inheritance, analysis of DNA and DNA fingerprinting, DNA cloning, prenatal genetic diagnosis, the genetics of complex traits, and the genetics of human populations. Assignments are based on current newspaper or magazine articles that reflect the interaction of genetics with a political, social, economic, or ethical issue. B. Strauss. Winter.
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