(1.25 units)

Structure, function, and organization of DNA in eukaryotic cells, bacteria, and viruses; molecular mechanisms of regulation of DNA replication, RNA and protein synthesis; recombinant DNA techniques in gene cloning. Laboratory consists entirely of experiments dealing with the cloning and expression of recombinant DNA in bacterial virus and/or plasmid vectors in E. coli. Lecture and laboratory. Prerequisites: BIOL 120 or BIOL 125 , BIOL 271 , CHEM 110 , and CHEM 111 .