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Molecular Biology - BIOCH13991

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Faculty: SCI - Faculty of Science

School: School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science

Contact: www.babs.unsw.edu.au

Program: 3991 - Medical Science

Award(s):

Bachelor of Medical Science (Major)

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Stream Outline

Recent advances in Molecular Cellular 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, and Cell Biology 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.

A major in Molecular Biology is only available to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Medical Science program.

Stream Structure

A major in Molecular Biology is comprised of 66 uints of credit of courses as follow:

Stage 2
*Note: students intending on completing a major in Molecular Biology must take BABS2202 in their second semester of their first year. This will require students to achieve a minimum of a credit in BABS1201

Stage 3
Plus 6 UOC from:
Honours

Students seeking to enrol into Honours in Molecular and Cell Biology should refer to program 4500 – Science (Honours) and contact the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science.
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