BIO3051 ST: Cell and Molecular Biology

In this course we will explore how cells function. The student of cells was born with the invention of the microscope, which first revealed that all living things were composed of cells. Cytology, the student of cell structure, then led to many questions about the functions of the structures observed in cells. The answers to these questions were derived first from biochemical studies of the chemical nature of the macromolecules found in cells to the study of how these macromolecules function in biological processes like DNA replication, transcription, and protein synthesis. Molecular Biology seeks to understand why phospholipids form membranes, how DNA is replicated, how genes are transcribed, how proteins are synthesized. The tools developed by researchers to answer these questions revolutionized our understanding of the cell and led to profound changes in the way we view every living thing on earth. Together, these three subdisciplines of biology have revealed that all the organisms on our planet are fundamentally similar at the level of cells and molecules. Credits: 4.000

CHE1521 Lecture (May be taken concurrently) Min Credits: 4.00 And $35.00