2024-25 Undergraduate Catalog

BIO 426 Vertebrate Development

This course examines the early development of the sea urchin, frog, chicken, and human. Living material, models, serial section and whole mount slides, and films are used to study cleavage, germ layer formation, histogenesis, and organogenesis. This course includes three hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory each week.

Credits

4

Prerequisite

BIO 111//115 and BIO 112/116

Corequisite

BIO 426L

Distribution

Math & Science

Offered

Fall, odd-numbered years