MCB Undergraduate Program

• MCB C100A, Biophysical Chemistry: Physical Principles (4 units)
• MCB 110 Molecular Biology: Macromolecular Synthesis and Cellular Function (4 units)
• MCB 140 General Genetics (4 units, fall only)
• MCB 140L Genetics Laboratory (4 units, spring only)
• One elective from each of GG&D Electives List A or B or
• 2 electives from GG & D Approved Electives list B

Track 2: Developmental Genetics

• MCB 102 Survey of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (4 units)
• MCB 104 Genetics, Genomics & Cell Biology (4 units)
• MCB 141 Developmental Biology (4 units, spring only)
• MCB 140L Genetics Laboratory (4 units, spring only)
• One elective from each of GG&D Electives List A or B or
• 2 electives from GG & D Approved Electives list B

GG & D Approved Electives List A:

Molecular and Cell Biology

• 100B Biochemistry: Pathways, Mechanisms, and Regulation (Sp; 3 units) 
• C103 Bacterial Pathogenesis (Sp; 3 units) 
• C112 General Microbiology (F; 4 units)
• C114 Comparative Virology (Sp; 4 units)
• 115 Molecular Biology of Animal Viruses
• C116 Microbial Diversity (F; 3 units)
• 130A Cell & Systems Biology (Sp; 4 units)
• 135A Molecular Endocrinology (alt F; 3 units)
• 136 Physiology (F; 4 units)
• 150 Molecular Immunology (F, Sp; 4 units)
• C160 Intro to Neurobiology (F, Sp; 4 units)
• 165 Molecular Neurobiology (Sp; 3 units)
• 166 Biophysical Neurobiology (F; 3 units)

Chemistry

• 113 Advanced Organic Chemistry (F, 3 units)
• 115 Organic Chemistry - Advanced Lab Methods (F, 4 units)
• 130B Biophysical Chemistry (Sp, 3 units)

Environmental Science, Policy & Management

• C148 Pesticide Chemistry and Toxicology (Sp, 3 units)
• 162 Bioethics & Society (Sp, 4 units)

Integrative Biology

• 160 Evolution (F, 4 units)

Mathematics

• 110 Linear Algebra (F, Sp, Su, 4 units)

Physics

• 112 Stats & Thermal Physics (F, Sp, 4 units)
• 132 Contemporary Physics (Sp, 3 units)

Plant Biology

• 135 Physiology and Biochemistry of Plants
• 150 Cellular and Developmental Plant Biology

GG & D Approved Electives List B:

Molecular and Cell Biology

• 132 Biology of Human Cancer (F; 4 units)
• C134 Chromosome Biology/Cytogenetics  (Sp; 3 units)
• 137 Computer Simulation in Biology (Sp; 3 units)  
• 141 Developmental Biology (Sp; 3 units) (for track 1 students only) 
• 143 Evolution of Genomes, Cells, and Development (F; 3 units)
• C148 Microbial Genomics & Genetics (Sp; 4 units)
• 167 Physiological & Genetic Basis of Behavior (Sp; 3 units)

Bioengineering

• *131 Intro to Computational Molecular and Cell Biology (F; 4 units)
• *C141 Statistics for Bioinformatics (4 units)
• *142 Programming & Algorithm Design for Computational Biology & Genomics Applications (4 units)
• 143 Computational Methods in Biology (4 units)
• 144 Introduction to Protein Informatics (Sp; 4 units)

Environmental Science and Policy Management

• 108B Forest Genetics (F, 3 units)

Integrative Biology

• 161 Population & Evolutionary Genetics (Sp, 4 units)
• 162 Ecological Genetics (F, 4 units)
• 163 Molecular & Genomic Evoluation (Sp, 3 units)
• 165 Introduction to Quantitative Genetics (4 units)

Mathematics

• *127 Mathematical and Computational Methods in Molecular Biology (F, 4 units)

Plant & Microbial Biology

• C134 Chromosome Biology/Cytogenetics (alt Sp, 3 units)
• 160 Plant Molecular Genetics (Sp, 3 units)

Public Health

• 141 Introduction to Biostatistics (Su, 5 units)
• 142 Introduction to Probability and Statistics in Bio and Public Health (F, 4 units)
• *143 Introduction to Statistical Methods in Computational and Genomic Biology (Sp, 4 units)
• 256 Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology and Human Health in the 21st Century (Sp, 4 units)

Statistics

• 131A Statistical Inference for Life Scientists (F, Sp, 4 units)
• 134 Concepts of Probability (F, Sp, 3 units)
• *C141 Stats for Bioinformatics (4 units)

*GG&D electives with an asterisk showing before the course number have pre-requisites outside of courses usually required of MCB majors. Please be sure to check these online.