UNSW Handbook Plan - Molecular Biology

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Molecular Biology - BIOCE13935


	Faculty: SCI - Faculty of Science
	School: School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science
	Contact: http://www.babs.unsw.edu.au/
	Program: 3935 - Science/Social Science
	Award(s):
	Bachelor of Science (Major)

Plan Outline

Recent advances in Molecular Biology, especially the continuing development of recombinant DNA technology, have revolutionised our understanding of the structure, function and regulation of individual genes. These advances have opened up the exciting field of Molecular Biology, one of the most rapid growth areas in biology. This marriage of Biochemistry, Microbiology, Cell Biology and Genetics provides an exciting new approach for the study of all living organisms, including the human. Molecular Biology therefore represents fundamental components of biological and medical science and they will have increasingly important roles to play in many aspects of modern medicine, genetics, evolutionary biology, bioinformatics, biotechnology and genomics.

Plan Structure

A major in Molecular Biology is comprised of 72 units of credit of courses as follows:

Stage 1

BABS1201 Molecules, Cells and Genes (6 UOC)
BIOS1101 Evolutionary & Functional Biol (6 UOC)

CHEM1011 Chemistry A (6 UOC) or CHEM1031 Higher Chemistry A (6 UOC)
CHEM1021 Chemistry B (6 UOC) or CHEM1041 Higher Chemistry B (6 UOC)
MATH1031 Mathematics for Life Sciences (6 UOC) ¹

Notes:

MATH1041 Statistics for Life and Social Sciences, MATH1131 Mathematics 1A, or MATH1141 Higher Mathematics 1A may be taken instead of MATH1031

Stage 2

BIOC2101 Principles of Biochem (Adv) (6 UOC)
BIOC2201 Principles of Mol. Biol (Adv) (6 UOC)
MICR2011 Microbiology 1 (6 UOC)

Stage 3

BABS3281 Molecular Genomics (6 UOC)

BABS3121 Molecular Biology of Nucleic Acids (6 UOC) or BABS3621 Molecular Biology of Nucleic Acids (Advanced) (6 UOC)
BABS3021 Microbial Genetics (6 UOC) or MICR3621 Microbial Genetics (Advanced) (6 UOC)

PLUS 6 UOC from:

BINF3010 Bioinformatics Methods & Apps (6 UOC)
BIOC3111 Molecular Biology of Proteins (6 UOC)

BIOC3271 Molecular Cell Biology 2 (6 UOC) or BIOC3671 Molecular Cell Biology (Advanced) (6 UOC)

Honours

For further information on Honours in Molecular Biology, please see the Molecular Biology Honours entry in this Handbook.

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