Biochemistry Major

Required Units

Total number of units required for major, excluding any required intensive(s): 10

Required Intensive units, if any: 1

Total units required: 11

Total Number of Specific Courses Required

• BIOL 107 - Energy Flow in Biological Systems
• BIOL 108 - Information Flow in Biological Systems
• CHEM 125 - Chemical Principles
• CHEM 244 - Organic Chemistry: Structure and Properties
• CHEM 245 - Organic Chemistry: Reactions and Mechanisms
• BIOL 272 - Biochemistry (Same as CHEM 272 )
• BIOC 326 - Biophysical Chemistry  – CHEM 350  will be offered in its place for 2019/20
• BIOC 356 - Biochemistry Senior Seminar  – CHEM 323  will be offered in its place for 2019/20

Distributional Content Area Units Required

• One Genetics course:

• BIOL 238 - Molecular Genetics
• BIOL 244 - Genetics and Genomics
• BIOL 248 - Evolutionary Genetics

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• One Cell Biology course:

• BIOL 205 - Introduction to Microbiology
• BIOL 218 - Cellular Structure and Function
• BIOL 232 - Developmental Biology
• BIOL 323 - Seminar in Cell and Molecular Biology
• BIOL 324 - Molecular Biology
• BIOL 370 - Immunology
• BIOL 386 - Stem Cell Biology
• BIOL 387 - Symbiotic Interactions
• BIOL 388 - Virology

Intensives

One unit accomplished in one of two ways:

• BIOC 377 - Senior Capstone Project

• or

• BIOC 399 - Senior Independent Research and
• BIOC 300 - Senior Thesis