Description: Tutorial, 12 hours. Preparation: minimum 3.0 grade-point average in major. Requisites: course 199B, Life Sciences 3 and 4, or 7A, 7B, 7C, 23L, and 107. Limited to juniors/seniors. Department majors may enroll with sponsorship from department faculty members or preapproved outside faculty members. Other junior/senior life sciences majors may enroll only for research projects in laboratories with department faculty sponsors. Supervised individual research under guidance of faculty mentor. Culminating research project designed to broaden and deepen students' knowledge of some phase of molecular, cell, and developmental biology. Must be taken for at least two terms and for total of at least 8 units. Students may elect to enroll in additional research through courses 199C and 199D. Report on progress must be presented to department each term 199A through 199D course is taken. Individual contract required. Letter grading.

Units: 4.0