BIOL 532 - Developmental Biology

Credit Hours: 4

A study of animal embryology and its molecular control, including: processes 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. Lecture: 3 hours a week; laboratory: 3 hours a week.