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Molecular and Cell Biology - BIOCM13767

Stream Summary

Faculty: SCI - Faculty of Science

School: School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science

Contact: http://www.babs.unsw.edu.au/

Program: 3767 - Engineering (Hons) / Science

Award(s):

Bachelor of 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.

Stream Structure

A major in Molecular and Cell Biology is comprised of 78 units of credit of courses as follows:

Stage 1

Stage 2
Plus 6 UOC from:

Stage 3
Plus 6 UOC from:
Recommended electives for students interested in Biochemistry (these courses are not required but are recommended as good complementary courses for this major):
Recommended electives for students interested in Genetics (these courses are not required but are recommended as good complementary courses for this major):
Honours

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