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BIO 316. Animal Development

Credits 3.00 PeopleSoft Course ID 005075

This course integrates cell and molecular biology and genetics to understand the processes and mechanisms underlying body plan formation and organ formation in vertebrate animals and insects. The course additionally covers the development of muscle, skeleton and nervous tissues, the postembryonic phenomena of growth, metamorphosis and regeneration, and the developmental basis of evolutionary changes in animal anatomy. Prerequisite: BIO 240 /BIO 240L .