BIOL 4330 - Developmental Biology

3 hours

Mechanisms of development, differentiation and growth in animals at the molecular, cellular and genetic levels. Areas of particular emphasis include transcriptional control mechanisms, embryonic patterning, cell–cell interactions, growth factors and signal transduction, and regulatory hierarchies. Coverage also includes the roles that environmental factors play in development, the medical applications of our knowledge of development and the roles that development plays in evolution.

Prerequisite(s): Completion of Foundation requirements for the declared biological sciences major. If major is outside of biological sciences, foundation requirements for the biology BA must be completed. If these requirements are not met, department consent is required.

May not be repeated at the graduate level as BIOL 5330.