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3.00 Credits
Same as Anthro 307A
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4.00 Credits
A lecture/laboratory course designed to provide an integrative framework for how vertebrate form and function evolved. Weekly lectures emphasize development and the relationship between the structural and functional design of organ systems, the importance of these relationships in maintaining homeostasis while providing opportunity for adaptation, and examples of how vertebrate organ systems communicate to accomplish functional and physiological integration. 1.5 hour lecture and five hours lab each week. Prerequisite: Biol 2970.
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3.00 Credits
An overview of mammalian endocrine systems with an emphasis on human physiology and development. The interplay between systemic, local cell, and tissue interactions as well as the cell and molecular events associated with hormone action are discussed. Examples of endocrine evolution and pathological conditions related to endocrine imbalances also are included. Prerequisite: Biol 2970.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the vast changes that the life sciences underwent between 1890 and 2000, from a largely descriptive and qualitative science to a highly experimental and quantitative science. Topics include the rejection of Haeckelian morphology; the rise of experimental embryology; the rediscovery of Mendel and development of the Mendelian-chromosome theory; the new "ecology" of the Chicago school; the introduction of feedback and control systems in physiology; the synthesis of Mendelism and Darwinism; the rise of biochemistry and molecular biology, and the genomic revolution. In each topic, biological ideas are placed in their historical and social contexts. Prerequisites: at least a high school or, preferably, college-level introductory course in biology and/or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
After a brief survey of pre-20th century theories of heredity, this course examines the work of Gregor Mendel and its rediscovery in 1900, as well as its expansion as an interfield theory in combination with the chromosome theory, which was pioneered beginning in 1910 by T.H. Morgan at Columbia and R.A. Emerson at Cornell and which led to the expansion of classical genetics up to World War II. The beginnings of biochemical and molecular genetics in the 1920s and 1930s developed rapidly after the war with the double-helix theory of DNA and the rise of molecular genetics. The course ends with examination of the Human Genome Project (Initiative) and the ramifications of genetic biotechnology. Throughout, emphasis is placed not only on the technical and theoretical developments comprising genetics as an epistemic field, but also on the economic, social, political and philosophical interconnections between genetics and society. Agriculture, medicine, and the ideology of social control (including such movements as eugenics and Nazi race hygiene) both influenced and were influenced by genetics and played an integral part in the construction of the science itself. Readings are drawn from the primary and secondary literature. There are mid-term final exams and periodic student reports. Prerequisite: Biol 2960 and Biol 2970.
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3.00 Credits
Same as E Lit 423
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3.00 Credits
Broad coverage of the role of genetics in medicine, with a focus on the application of genomic technologies to the understanding of human disease. Areas covered include the identification of human disease genes, modern cytogenetics, risk assessment in pedigrees, biochemical genetics, imprinting, mitochondrial genetics, gene therapy, complex inheritance, assisted reproduction, prenatal diagnosis, immunity, cancer, and pharmacogenetics. The profound ethical and legal considerations raised by modern genetic technologies are also discussed.
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3.00 Credits
Medicinal Botany is the study of plants having medical applications. Plants provide the molecular basis of many pharmaceuticals, as direct compounds or molecular blueprints. Modern science blurs the traditional distinction between nutrition and medicine. This class provides an interface between botany, traditional medicinal plant use, and Western medicine. It examines curative as well as potentially harmful impacts on human health of plants with medicinal and psychoactive properties. Special attention is given to utilization of medicinal plants in traditional cultures, as well as in codified alternative medicinal systems (e.g. Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine) and in our Western culture. The class uses a seminar format to examine current knowledge of medicinal plants throughout the world, including a short introduction to plant taxonomy and ethnobotanical research methods. Grading is based on two short papers, one long paper and an in-class presentation of material from the long paper. Prerequisites: Biol 2970, or Anthro 150 and 160.
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4.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the function, regulation, and integration of the major organ systems of the body. Course content includes neural and hormonal homeostatic mechanisms, and study of the circulatory, respiratory, digestive, urinary, musculoskeletal, nervous, endocrine, immune and reproductive organ systems. Mechanisms of exercise physiology are integrated throughout the course. Prerequisite: Biol 3058 or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
Eukaryotic cell structure and function viewed from the perspective of modern cell biology. Lectures cover such topics as membrane transport; endocytosis and secretion; intracellular trafficking; hormones and signal transduction; extracellular matrix and tissue formation; cytoskeleton and motility; and cell cycle, apoptosis, and the cellular basis of disease. Prerequisite: Biol 2970.
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