Description: Lecture, two hours. Requisites: courses 100 or 165A, 144, Life Sciences 4 or 107. Recent developments in fields of molecular, cell, and developmental biology. Current developments in field of molecular evolution. Constructing evolutionary trees at molecular level; formal testing of evolutionary hypotheses using sequencing data. Original research proposal required. Concurrently scheduled with course C174A. Letter grading.

Units: 2.0