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department Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology (X) |
Seminar, one hour. Discussion of and critical thinking about topics of current intellectual importance, taught by faculty members in their areas of expertise and illuminating many paths of discovery at UCLA. P/NP grading.
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Lecture, five and one-half hours; experiential service learning, 30 minutes. Introduction to interdisciplinary debate surrounding personal and societal response to AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three and one-half hours; discussion, 90 minutes. Developmental biology of various types of human stem cells. Important functional differences between embryonic, hematopoietic, and adult stem cells, as well as differences in their biomedical potentials. Discussion of history of debate surrounding embryos, as well as various social, ethical, political, and economic aspects of stem cell research. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Examination of importance of ethics in research and exploration of how and why bioethics is relevant to reproductive screening, policy formation, public regulation, and law. Provides foundation in traditional ethics, consideration of subcategories of bioethics, neuroethics, and eugenics, and how to apply ethics to contemporary issues in research and technology. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Designed for nonmajors. Not open to students with credit for Life Sciences 3 or 4. Basic principles of genetic engineering. Overview of genetic engineering techniques and relationship of genetic engineering to medicine, agriculture, and society. Emphasis on specific genetic engineering applications to generate discussion on its use in society. Letter grading.
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Lecture, two and one half hours; laboratory, two hours. Designed for nonmajors. Basic principles of plant biology and introduction to techniques for manipulating plants for improved agriculture, sources of renewable clean energy, reclamation of deforested and nutritionally depleted soils, and biological factories to produce biodegradable plastics, antibodies, and other commodities. Underexploited agriculture crops also featured. P/NP or letter grading.
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Seminar, three hours. Limited to 20 students. Designed as adjunct to lower division lecture course. Exploration of topics in greater depth through supplemental readings, papers, or other activities and led by lecture course instructor. May be applied toward honors credit for eligible students. Honors content noted on transcript. P/NP or letter grading.
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Tutorial, three hours. Limited to students in College Honors Program. Designed as adjunct to lower division lecture course. Individual study with lecture course instructor to explore topics in greater depth through supplemental readings, papers, or other activities. May be repeated for maximum of 4 units. Individual honors contract required. Honors content noted on transcript. Letter grading.
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Tutorial (supervised research or other scholarly work), three hours per week per unit. Entry-level research for lower division students under guidance of faculty mentor. Students must be in good academic standing and enrolled in minimum of 12 units (excluding this course). Individual contract required; consult Undergraduate Research Center. May be repeated. P/NP grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: Life Sciences 3, 4. Enforced corequisite: Chemistry 153A. Not open for credit to Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology majors or to students with credit for course M140 or 165A. Analysis of cell organization, structure, and function at molecular level. Cell membranes and organelles, membrane transport, cellular signaling, cytoskeleton and cell movement, intracellular trafficking, cell energetics. Letter grading.
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Lecture, two hours; discussion, one hour; laboratory, eight hours. Enforced requisites: Life Sciences 3, 4. Limited to departmental majors. Introduction to methods in molecular biology. Topics include purification, manipulation, and analysis of DNA, RNA, and protein. Emphasis on computer sequence analysis and use of current literature. May not be repeated for credit. Letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Requisites: Life Sciences 3, 4. Introduction to plant biology, as well as to concepts and techniques in molecular biology and genetics. Letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: Life Sciences 3, 4. Cellular and molecular basis of animal embryology. Letter grading.
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(Same as Biological Chemistry M140.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: Chemistry 14A, 14B, and 14BL, or 20A, 20B, and 20L, Life Sciences 3, 4. Not open for credit to students with credit for courses 165A and 165B. Satisfies premedical requirements. Eukaryotic cellular structures and biogenesis at molecular level. Biochemical and genetic analysis of cell cycle, signal transduction, and their involvement in development and cancer. Protein sorting and transport across cell membranes. Cytoskeletal components and cell-adhesion. Letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: Life Sciences 1, 3, 4. In-depth study of basic processes of growth differentiation and development in plants and molecular mechanisms underlying these processes. Discussion of variety of plant systems, with focus on developing critical understanding of current experimental basis of research in this field. Concurrently scheduled with course C239. Letter grading.
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Seminar, two hours. Requisite: course 138. Undergraduate seminar on topics in developmental biology. Reading and group discussions on current research. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: course 138, Life Sciences 3, 4. Cellular and molecular basis of animal embryology, with primary emphasis on vertebrate organ development, but including pertinent material from "Drosophila" and other invertebrate model organisms. Letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: Life Sciences 3, 4. Not open for credit to students with credit for Chemistry 153B. Structure of genes and chromosomes; prokaryotic and eukaryotic replication and transcription; repair and recombination; RNA processing. Letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: Life Sciences 3, 4. Most people think of plants as static organisms, yet they live in world of symbiosis and community. Plants change atmosphere, enrich soil, and communicate with insects, bacteria, and each other -- Earth's ultimate symbiote. Just as science has revealed over time misconceptions about how things work at deeper level, scientists and economists now recognize that beyond obvious need to grow above-ground biomass for fuel production, we must better understand how to make that biomass in sustainable manner. Introductory course in chemical ecology and how natural compounds affect gene expression. Emphasis on role of natural compounds in plant/microbe, plant/plant, and plant/herbivore interactions; synopsis of principles of plant defense mechanisms and responses to microbial infections. Concurrently scheduled with course C250. P/NP or letter grading.
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(Formerly numbered 120L.) Laboratory, four hours. Enforced requisite: course C150. Recommended: course 104 or Microbiology 103L or 121A. Introductory plant biology laboratory to give students hands-on experience doing experiments and making their own observations about plant biology. Letter grading.
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(Same as Biological Chemistry CM153G, Chemistry CM153G, and Human Genetics CM153G.) Lecture, five hours. Requisites: Chemistry 110A, 153A, 153B, 153C, 156. Chemical and physical properties of proteins and nucleic acids. Biosynthesis, structure, and function of proteins, nucleic acids, and multicomponent complexes; protein and nucleic acid enzymology and gene expression. Structure, cloning, and analysis of DNA; biosynthesis and processing of RNA; biosynthesis, purification, structure, and analysis of proteins; correlation of structure and biological properties. Short computer module to teach aspects of protein structure. Genetic, molecular genetic, genomic, and proteomic approaches in bacteria and yeast. Concurrently scheduled with course CM253. Letter grading.
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Lecture, two hours; discussion, one hour; laboratory, six hours. Recommended preparation: course 104. Designed for and limited to Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology majors for priority pass and first pass. Gene mapping and detection and analysis of gene variants by means of inheritance patterns. Letter grading.
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(Same as Human Genetics CM156 and Microbiology CM156.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Requisites: Life Sciences 3, 4. Application of genetic principles in human populations, with emphasis on cytogenetics, biochemical genetics, population genetics, and family studies. Lectures and readings in literature, with focus on current questions in fields of medical and human genetics and methodologies appropriate to answer such questions. Concurrently scheduled with course CM256. Letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: Life Sciences 4, two upper division molecular, cell, and developmental biology or neuroscience courses. How do worms decide whether something smells good or bad? What happens to brain of fruit fly when it is exposed to alcohol? How does fish embryo decide whether to respond to touch by swimming leisurely or rapidly escaping? Behavior of animals, including humans, is controlled by ensembles of neurons that together form neural circuits. Understanding how these circuits function is unifying goal of neurobiology. Physiological techniques have been used in past to investigate logic of neural circuits. Scientists now ask how genes make neural circuits work and use variety of cutting-edge genetic and molecular techniques. Survey of recent primary literature that applies these approaches to three models: olfaction in nematode worms, alcohol-induced behavior in fruit flies, and motor responses in zebrafish. Letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: Chemistry 14D or 30B, Life Sciences 3. Not open for credit to students with credit for course M140. Molecular basis of cellular structure and function, with focus on each individual cellular organelle, as well as interaction of cells with extracellular environment and with other cells. Material presented in context of experimental questions and answers to incorporate concept of scientific method and recent advances in cell biology research. Exposure in discussions to recent scientific articles that directly relate to information examined in lectures. Letter grading.
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