BIOL 401 - Developmental Biology

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisites: BIOL 210/BIOL 211 and BIOL 308 (These may be taken as corequisites.)
A study of animal embryology and its molecular control, including: the process of fertilization; the processes of cleavage, gastrulation, and neurulation; the formation of tissues and organs from the 3 primordial germ layers; the role of secondary induction and of horm1s in development; the role of the environment in development; and some of the techniques of molecular biology that are used in the study of developmental processes. The laboratory will include use of model systems to investigate the principles discussed in lecture.