BIOL 200. Molecular Biology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
The physical and chemical properties of the cell and its components in relation to their structure and function. Topics include: protein structure, enzymes and enzyme kinetics; nucleic acid replication, transcription and translation; the genetic code, mutation, recombination, and regulation of gene expression.
- Fall
- 3 hours lecture, 1 hour optional tutorial
- Prerequisite: BIOL 112 or equivalent
- Corequisite: CHEM 212 or equivalent, or CHEM 204
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BIOL 206. Methods in Biology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
Introduction to modern methods used in organismal biology, including ecological
sampling, experimental methods and statistics. Particular emphasis is on ways of thinking about the design of sampling programs and the analyses of data to test hypotheses using observational or experimental data.
- Fall
- 1. 2 hours lecture, 2. 3 hours laboratory
- Prerequisite: BIOL 111 or equivalent
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BIOL 210. Perspectives of Science.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
This course is an introduction to the thinking, language and practices of scientists. Its objective is to bridge the gap between science and the humanities, and in particular to allow students enrolled in the Minor Concentration in Science for Arts to pursue their interests in specific scientific disciplines.
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BIOL 215. Introduction to Ecology and Evolution.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
An introduction to the fundamental processes of ecology and evolution that bear on the nature and diversity of organisms and the processes that govern their assembly into ecological communities and their roles in ecosystem function.
- Fall
- 3 hours lecture
- Prerequisite: BIOL 111
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ENVR 202
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BIOL 219. Introduction to Physical
Molecular and Cell Biology.
Credits: 4
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
An introduction to molecular and cell biology from a physical perspective. Techniques and methodologies, both experimental and computational, are included in the presentation of each thematic module.
- Prerequisite(s): BIOL 112; CHEM 110 and CHEM 120; MATH 140, MATH 141 and MATH 133; PHYS 131 and PHYS 142; or the equivalents of these courses.
- Corequisite(s): MATH 222 or equivalent
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking ANAT 212, BIOC 212, BIOL 200, and BIOL 201, or BIEN 219. Only open to students in Bioengineering, Computer Science-Biology, Biology-Mathematics, Biology-Quantitative Biology, Chemistry-Biophysical Chemistry, and Physics-Biological Physics Options.
- This course is meant to prepare students for related 300-level courses in Biology, Chemistry, Engineering and Physics.
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BIOL 201. Cell Biology and Metabolism.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
This course introduces the student to our modern understanding of cells and how they work. Major topics to be covered include: photosynthesis, energy metabolism and metabolic integration; plasma membrane including secretion, endocytosis and contact mediated interactions between cells; cytoskeleton including cell and organelle movement; the nervous system; hormone signaling; the cell cycle.
- Winter
- 3 hours lecture, 1 hour optional tutorial
- Prerequisite: BIOL 200.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking ANAT 212 or BIOC 212
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BIOL 202. Basic Genetics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
Introduction to basic principles, and to modern advances, problems and applications in the genetics of higher and lower organisms with examples representative of the biological sciences.
- Winter
- 3 hours lecture, 1 hour optional tutorial per week
- Prerequisite: BIOL 200 or BIOL 219
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking LSCI 204 or BIOL 302.
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BIOL 205. Functional Biology of Plants and Animals.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
Unified view of form and function in animals and plants. Focus on how the laws of chemistry and physics illuminate biological processes relating to the acquisition of energy and materials and their use in movement, growth, development, reproduction and responses to environmental stress.
- Winter
- 3 hours lecture, optional conference hour
- Prerequisites: BIOL 200 or BIOL 219 or permission of the instructor
- Corequisite: ANAT 212/BIOC 212 or BIOL 201
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BIOL 216. Biology of Behaviour.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
Introduction to the study of animal behaviour at the population, organismal, cellular, and molecular levels. Historical and contemporary methods and experiments will be presented and discussed to provide an overall appreciation of the biology of behaviour, with a focus on the application of multiple levels of analysis to biological phenomena and the formulation of hypotheses about evolution, development, function, and mechanisms of behavioural traits. Topics will range from how animals communicate with one another to the cellular mechanisms that allow information to be processed by nervous systems.
- Prerequisites: BIOL 111 and BIOL 112 or equivalents
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