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Introductory Courses

Freshman Courses

BIOL 101. Organismal Biology Laboratory.

Credits: 1
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Laboratory component of . May be taken only by transfer students who have completed elsewhere the lecture component but not the laboratory of and only with permission of the Associate Dean (Student Affairs) of Science.
  • Attendance at first lab is mandatory, starting on the 2nd week of the semester, to confirm registration in the course.
  • Labs for fall 2021 will be held in the field and remotely. Students are expected to be in Montreal for fall 2021. Unability to be in Montreal for fall 2021 must be validated by annemarie.lheureux [at] mcgill.ca (please provide time zone for fall 2021).
  • Fall
  • 2 hours laboratory
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken, or are taking BIOL 111.
  • Labs are held weekly, starting from the second week of term. Attendance at the first lab is mandatory to confirm registration in the course.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

BIOL 111. Principles: Organismal Biology.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An introduction to the phylogeny, structure, function and adaptation of unicellular organisms, plants and animals in the biosphere.
  • Note: This class will use a Student Response System (clicker) which can be obtained when you get your ID Card in the Trottier Building between August 20 and August 31st. If you already have your ID Card, you can get your SRS at Redpath Library Room 22 beginning August 20th.
  • Open to all students wishing introductory biology.
  • Attendance at first lab is mandatory, starting on the 2nd week of the semester, to confirm registration in the course.
  • Labs for Fall 2021 will be held in the field and remotely. Students are expected to be in Montreal for Fall 2021.
  • Fall
  • 2 hours lecture and 2 hours laboratory
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CEGEP objective 00UK or equivalent; or BIOL 115.
  • This course serves as an alternative to CEGEP objective code 00UK
  • Labs are held weekly, starting from the second week of term. Attendance at the first lab is mandatory to confirm registration in the course.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

BIOL 102. Cell and Molecular Biology Methods.

Credits: 1
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The laboratory component of . May be taken only by transfer students who have completed elsewhere the lecture component but not the laboratory of and only with permission of the Associate Dean (Student Affairs) of Science.
  • Attendance at first lab is mandatory, starting on the 2nd week of the semester, to confirm registration in the course.
  • The format of the Biol 112 labs for winter 2022 will be indicated in Minerva shortly. Students are expected to be in Montreal for winter 2022. Unability to be in Montreal for winter 2022 must be validated by annemarie.lheureux [at] mcgill.ca (please provide time zone for winter 2022).
  • Winter
  • 2 hours laboratory
  • Restriction: Not open to students who are taking, or have taken BIOL 112.
  • Labs are held weekly, starting from the second week of term. Attendance at the first lab is mandatory to confirm registration in the course.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

BIOL 112. Cell and Molecular Biology.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The cell: ultrastructure, division, chemical constituents and reactions. Bioenergetics: photosynthesis and respiration. Principles of genetics, the molecular basis of inheritance and biotechnology.
  • The format of the Biol 112 labs for Winter 2022 will be indicated in Minerva shortly. Students are expected to be in Montreal for winter 2022.
  • Winter
  • 2 hours lecture and 2 hours laboratory
  • Labs are held weekly, starting from the second week of term. Attendance at the first lab is mandatory to confirm registration in the course.
  • This course serves as an alternative to CEGEP objective code 00XU
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking CEGEP objective 00XU or equivalent;or BIOL 115; or AEBI 122

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

BIOL 115. Essential Biology.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An introduction to biological science that emphasizes the manner in which scientific understanding is achieved and evolves and the influence of biological science on society. Topics will include cell structure and function, genetics, evolution, organ physiology, ecology and certain special topics that change from year to year.
  • Fall
  • 3 hours lecture
  • Prerequisites: none.
  • Restrictions: Open only to non-Science students; not open to students who have had BIOL 111, BIOL 112, or equivalents.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

200 Level Courses

BIOL 200. Molecular Biology.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The physical and chemical properties of the cell and its components in relation to their structure and function. Topics include: protein structure, enzymes and enzyme kinetics; nucleic acid replication, transcription and translation; the genetic code, mutation, recombination, and regulation of gene expression.
  • Fall
  • 3 hours lecture, 1 hour optional tutorial
  • Prerequisite: BIOL 112 or equivalent
  • Corequisite: CHEM 212 or equivalent, or CHEM 204

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

BIOL 206. Methods in Biology.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Introduction to modern methods used in organismal biology, including ecological sampling, experimental methods and statistics. Particular emphasis is on ways of thinking about the design of sampling programs and the analyses of data to test hypotheses using observational or experimental data.
  • Fall
  • 1. 2 hours lecture, 2. 3 hours laboratory
  • Prerequisite: BIOL 111 or equivalent

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

BIOL 210. Perspectives of Science.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

This course is an introduction to the thinking, language and practices of scientists. Its objective is to bridge the gap between science and the humanities, and in particular to allow students enrolled in the Minor Concentration in Science for Arts to pursue their interests in specific scientific disciplines.
  • Fall
  • 3 hours lecture

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

BIOL 215. Introduction to Ecology and Evolution.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An introduction to the fundamental processes of ecology and evolution that bear on the nature and diversity of organisms and the processes that govern their assembly into ecological communities and their roles in ecosystem function.
  • Fall
  • 3 hours lecture
  • Prerequisite: BIOL 111
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ENVR 202

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

BIOL 219. Introduction to Physical Molecular and Cell Biology.

Credits: 4
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An introduction to molecular and cell biology from a physical perspective. Techniques and methodologies, both experimental and computational, are included in the presentation of each thematic module.
  • This course is meant to prepare students for related 300-level courses in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, etc.
  • Prerequisite(s): BIOL 112; CHEM 110 and CHEM 120; MATH 140, MATH 141 and MATH 133; PHYS 131 and PHYS 142; or the equivalents of these courses.
  • Corequisite(s): MATH 222 or equivalent
  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking ANAT 212, BIOC 212, BIOL 200, and BIOL 201, or BIEN 219. Only open to students in Bioengineering, Computer Science-Biology, Biology-Mathematics, Biology-Quantitative Biology, Chemistry-Biophysical Chemistry, and Physics-Biological Physics Options.
  • This course is meant to prepare students for related 300-level courses in Biology, Chemistry, Engineering and Physics.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

BIOL 201. Cell Biology and Metabolism.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

This course introduces the student to our modern understanding of cells and how they work. Major topics to be covered include: photosynthesis, energy metabolism and metabolic integration; plasma membrane including secretion, endocytosis and contact mediated interactions between cells; cytoskeleton including cell and organelle movement; the nervous system; hormone signaling; the cell cycle.
  • Winter
  • 3 hours lecture, 1 hour optional tutorial
  • Prerequisite: BIOL 200.
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking ANAT 212 or BIOC 212

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

BIOL 202. Basic Genetics.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Introduction to basic principles, and to modern advances, problems and applications in the genetics of higher and lower organisms with examples representative of the biological sciences.
  • Winter
  • 3 hours lecture, 1 hour optional tutorial per week
  • Prerequisite: BIOL 200 or BIOL 219
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking LSCI 204 or BIOL 302.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

BIOL 205. Functional Biology of Plants and Animals.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Unified view of form and function in animals and plants. Focus on how the laws of chemistry and physics illuminate biological processes relating to the acquisition of energy and materials and their use in movement, growth, development, reproduction and responses to environmental stress.
  • Restriction: Not open to students who are taking or have taken PLNT 201.
  • Winter
  • 3 hours lecture, optional conference hour
  • Prerequisites: BIOL 200 and PHYS 101 or 131 or equivalent
  • Corequisite: ANAT 212/BIOC 212 or BIOL 201

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

BIOL 216. Biology of Behaviour.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Introduction to the study of animal behaviour at the population, organismal, cellular, and molecular levels. Historical and contemporary methods and experiments will be presented and discussed to provide an overall appreciation of the biology of behaviour, with a focus on the application of multiple levels of analysis to biological phenomena and the formulation of hypotheses about evolution, development, function, and mechanisms of behavioural traits. Topics will range from how animals communicate with one another to the cellular mechanisms that allow information to be processed by nervous systems.
  • Prerequisites: BIOL 111 and BIOL 112 or equivalents

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

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