Introduction to Laboratory and Scientific Methodology

(Formerly numbered XL 23L.) Lecture, one hour; laboratory, three hours.

Requisite: course XL 7B.

Recommended to be taken concurrently with course XL 7C.

Introductory life sciences laboratory designed for undergraduate students.

Opportunity to conduct wet-laboratory and cutting-edge bioinformatics laboratory experiments.

Students work in groups of three conducting experiments in areas of physiology, metabolism, cell biology, molecular biology, genotyping, and bioinformatics.

Letter grading.