MCD BIO 143Developmental Biology: Genetic Control of Organogenesis

Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Cellular and molecular basis of animal embryology, with primary emphasis on vertebrate organ development, but including pertinent material from Drosophila and other invertebrate model organisms.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.

Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Requisites: course 138, Life Sciences 3, 4, and 23L, or 7A, 7B, 7C, 23L, and 107.

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· "LIFESCI 3" is not in this catalog version
· "LIFESCI 4" is not in this catalog version
· "LIFESCI 23L" is not in this catalog version
· "LIFESCI 23L" is not in this catalog version
· mixed comma-level AND/OR in "course 138, Life Sciences 3, 4, and 23L, or 7A, 7B, 7C, 23L, and 107" — grouping is a best reading

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

MCD BIO 143

MCD BIO 138Developmental Biology
- LIFESCI 7ACell and Molecular Biologyanother path to it
- LIFESCI 7BGenetics, Evolution, and Ecologyanother path to it
- LIFESCI 7CPhysiology and Human Biologyanother path to it
LIFESCI 7ACell and Molecular Biology
LIFESCI 7BGenetics, Evolution, and Ecology
- LIFESCI 7ACell and Molecular Biologyanother path to it
LIFESCI 7CPhysiology and Human Biology
- LIFESCI 7BGenetics, Evolution, and Ecologyanother path to it
LIFESCI 107Genetics
- CHEM 14AGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists I
  - MATH 3ACalculus for Life Sciences Students1 more beneath
  - LIFESCI 30AMathematics for Life Scientists
  - MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculusanother path to it
- LIFESCI 7CPhysiology and Human Biologyanother path to it
- CHEM 14CStructure of Organic Molecules
  - CHEM 14BGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists II5 more beneath
- CHEM 20AChemical Structure
  - MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus1 more beneath
- CHEM 30AOrganic Chemistry I: Structure and Reactivity
  - CHEM 20BChemical Energetics and Change3 more beneath

5 direct requisites. Showing 21 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.

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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.