BIO 210: CELLULAR BIOLOGY
Catalog Description: BIO 210: CELLULAR BIOLOGY (A) Examination of the molecular and biochemical systems central to cellular structures and processes including organelles and some specialized cell types. Three lectures, one three-hour laboratory. Prerequisites: BIO 201-202, CHE 221-222. (4 cr. hr.)
Additional
Information: This course is taught both Fall and Spring semesters by Dr. Sternfeld
and the laboratories are held in Bowers Hall 249.
This is generally a moderately sized class of mostly sophomores. There
are two hour exams and the final plus lab reports and quizzes in
lab. The course can be taken as Writing Intensive. A wide range of
topics is covered in this course as you can see below and a general comment by
students is that the course covers a great deal of material.
Lecture: The course is designed to progressively build levels of understanding. The beginning of the course covers topics that pick up from
chemistry courses - we look at the structure of "biological
molecules". This provides the background to understand both the
interactions between molecules, including the function of enzymes, as well as
the structure and function of membranes which are important to so many
biological processes. This knowledge is then built upon to understand to
the processes that take place in cellular organelles. Finally, we examine
some specialized cell types which allows students to see how many of the
functions previously studied work together.
Lab: Many of the laboratory exercises reinforce the lecture topics and involve work with a large variety of equipment including microscopes, pH meters, spectrophotometers, centrifuges, electrophoresis and computers.