EE BIOL 143Viral Ecology and Evolution
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Viruses are most common biological entity on planet, and have broad-ranging ecological and evolutionary environmental and medical impacts. This makes understanding roles of viruses central to understanding how ecosystems work, how microorganisms change over time in face of viral infection, how viral pandemics occur and progress, and how many human diseases affect individual health. Students gain comprehensive understanding of how viruses operate in environmental and medical systems, and how they and their hosts evolve over time; and reasoned perspective on future impacts of viruses in changing ecosystems, and on human societies and health. Emphasis on development of mechanistic understanding of viruses.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: Life Sciences 7A, 7B, 7C, 23L.
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Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
EE BIOL 143
- LIFESCI 7ACell and Molecular Biology
- LIFESCI 7BGenetics, Evolution, and Ecology
- LIFESCI 7CPhysiology and Human Biology
3 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 5 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.