MCD BIO 196BResearch Apprenticeship II in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Technical aspects vary depending on specific laboratory; however, all students use scientific method learned in course 196A and continue same experimental scope proposed, but with additional degree of independence in technical and intellectual aspects of research.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Spring 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisites: courses 180A, 196A. Enforced corequisite: course 180B.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from textBruinTree reads · Corequisite
confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MCD BIO 196B
- MCD BIO 180AScientific Analysis and Communication I
- MCD BIO 196AResearch Apprenticeship I in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biologyanother path to it
- MCD BIO 180BScientific Analysis and Communication II
- MCD BIO 196AResearch Apprenticeship I in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biologyanother path to it
- MCD BIO 196BResearch Apprenticeship II in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biologyanother path to it
- MCD BIO 196AResearch Apprenticeship I in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
- LIFESCI 7ACell and Molecular Biology
- LIFESCI 7BGenetics, Evolution, and Ecology
- LIFESCI 7CPhysiology and Human Biology
- LIFESCI 107Genetics
3 direct requisites. Showing 19 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.
MCD BIO 196B
- MCD BIO 180BScientific Analysis and Communication II
- MCD BIO 196BResearch Apprenticeship II in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biologyanother path to it
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.