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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: approval of instructor. Environmental Biology is a threehour lecture course that fulfills the writing emphasis requirement. The course is designed to introduce students to contemporary issues in environmental biology such as the biological consequences of global climate change, extinction, contaminants in the environment, and overfishing. The course will be based on class discussions of primary literature and students will complete a major writing assignments in the form of a literature review.
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3.00 Credits
See Chemistry Prerequisite: Prior completion or co-registration in BIOL 40503. One three-hour laboratory per week. Analysis of chemicals found in body fluids. Includes clinical methods and pathology.
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3.00 Credits
See Chemistry Prerequisite: CHEM 30123 or equivalent. Three hours lecture per week. Fundamental chemical properties, analysis techniques, metabolism and clinicopathology of proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, enzymes and hormones.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: BIOL 10504, 30603, 40123. Three hours of lecture per week. Survey of viruses, molecular biology of virus life cycles, viral pathogenesis and gene therapy using viral vectors.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: BIOL 10514 or BIOL 30613. The Natural History of the American Southwest course is a hands-on 3 week, 5000 mile experience that allows students to acquire a working knowledge of major ecosystems of this region. Instruction is focused on the botany, zoology, ecology, geology and anthropology of regions visited. Two written exams are administered, completion of a field journal is required, and a summary paper is expected that ties together the principles, structural, and functional properties of ecosystems studied. This is an upper-level field biology course.
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3.00 Credits
Field and laboratory research experiences for advanced students. Nine clock hours per week are required total 135 hours per semester. Upon completion of an independent research project, the results will be written in a format suitable for publication in the scientific literature. Credit will not be given for both BIOL 40803 and BIOL 40900 for the same project. A student may receive credit for this course only one time. Does not substitute for BIOL 40033.
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3.00 Credits
Field and laboratory problems for advanced students. Nine clock hours per week of laboratory and/or field work are required for each semester hour of credit, for up to a total six semester hours of credit. A student may receive only three hours of credit in the major for this course. Three hours of credit may also be taken for university electives. If a student has been enrolled in or will enroll in BIOL 40033 or BIOL 40803, then only up to three hours of BIOL 40900 may be taken for university elective credits.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours lecture per week. Prerequisite: BIOL 30403 or permission of instructor. Concepts, principles, and mechanisms of the function of terrestrial ecosystems, including ecophysiology of component species, nutrient cycling, energy flow, ecosystem stability and global ecology.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CHEM 30133, 40113 or permission of the instructor. Three lecture hours per week. A general survey of structure and function of biologically important compounds with methods of analysis. (Offered as BIOL or CHEM credit.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CHEM or BIOL 50133. Biosynthesis, replication of DNA, synthesis and processing of RNA and proteins, and special topics e.g. brain and muscle functions, hormones and signal transduction, cancer, development, etc. (Offered as BIOL or CHEM credit.)
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