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MCD BIO 187ALResearch Immersion Laboratory in Genomic Biology

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

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Course 187AL is requisite to 187BL. Limited to Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology majors. Introduction to cutting-edge genomic technologies and bioinformatics methods and resources for genome annotation. Students propose original research projects related to gene annotation and drive their projects using bioinformatics tools. Students are provided fragments of genome from relatively poorly studied organism that has been sequenced at UCLA. May not be repeated for credit.

Letter grading.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording

Requisites: Life Sciences 4 or 107, 23L.

BruinTree reads · Prerequisite

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all of
  • one of
    • LIFESCI 4
    • LIFESCI 107
  • LIFESCI 23L
  • · "LIFESCI 4" is not in this catalog version
  • · "LIFESCI 23L" is not in this catalog version

Requires

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

MCD BIO 187AL

  • 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 Biology
      • LIFESCI 7BGenetics, Evolution, and Ecology1 more beneath
    • 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

1 direct requisite. Showing 13 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

MCD BIO 187AL

  • MIMG 123Advanced Annotation and Comparative Genomics

1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.

  • Spring 2026
  • Summer 2026
  • Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.