Developmental Biology

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Three hours lecture per week Prerequisite(s): BIOL 300 with a grade of C- or better Descriptive, experimental, and comparative approaches in the study of animal development. Developmental stages including gametogenesis, fertilization, cleavage, gastrulation, and organogenesis will be discussed in a variety of animal phyla. The molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying morphogenesis and the evolutionary conservation of developmental mechanisms in various animal phyla will be examined.