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Biological Chemistry Major Requirements

Cell and Molecular Biology courses

CELL101 General Biology
CELL 205 Genetics
CELL 301 Cell Biology
CELL 311 Molecular Biology
CELL 312 Molecular Biology Lab
CELL 422 Microbiology

Chemistry courses

CHEM 107, 108 (or H109, 111) General Chemistry I and II
CHEM 117, 118 (or H110, 112) General Chemistry Lab I and II
CHEM 241, 242 Organic Chemistry I and II
CHEM 243, 244 Organic Chemistry Lab I and II
CHEM 312, 314 Physical Chemistry II and Lab
CHEM 383, 385 Introduction to Biochemistry and Lab
CHEM 384 Intermediate Biochemistry

Mathematics courses

MATH 121 Calculus I
MATH 122 Calculus II
MATH 221 Calculus III
Please note that MATH 131 may be taken in lieu of 121 and 122.

Physics courses

PHYS 131 General Physics I
PHYS 132 General Physics II

Independent Study courses

One year of research (either BMEN 490, 491, CELL 495, 496, CENG 481, 482, 491, 492 or CHEM 401, 402) or an honor's thesis project (CELL or CHEM H499, H500) is also required.

Electives, select two of the following

CELL302 Cell Biology Lab
CELL 305 or CHEM 305 Drugs and Their Actions
CELL 321 Cellular Physiology
CELL 331 Cellular Neuroscience
CELL 332 Systems Neuroscience
CELL 413 Embryology
CELL 416 Developmental Biology
CELL 423 Microbiology Lab
CELL 437 Molecular Neurobiology
CELL 434 Neurobiology of Disease
CELL 471 Molecular Biology of Cancer
CELL 478 Developmental Genetics
CENG 250 Introduction to Biotechnology and Biomolecular Engineering
CENG 471 Biochemical Engineering
CHEM 311 Physical Chemistry I
CHEM 331 Instrumental Analysis
EBIO 333 Human Physiology
EBIO 453 Comparative Animal Physiology
MATH 123 Statistics for Scientists
PHYS 327 Biophysics of the Living Cell

Any prerequisite courses must be completed before enrolling in the above courses.

Molecular graphics images were produced using the UCSF Chimera package from the Computer Graphics Laboratory, University of California, San Francisco (supported by NIH P41 RR-01081). http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera Huang, C.C., Couch, G.S., Pettersen, E.F., and Ferrin, T.E. "Chimera: An Extensible Molecular Modeling Application Constructed Using Standard Components." Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 1 :724 (1996).

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