MCD BIO 198BHonors Research in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology

Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Limited to junior/senior Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology majors. Development and completion of comprehensive research project and honors thesis under direct supervision of approved faculty member to broaden and deepen students’ knowledge of some phase of molecular, cell, and developmental biology. Must be taken for at least three terms and for total of 12 units. Report on progress must be presented to undergraduate adviser each term 198 course is taken. Individual contract required.

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
Requisites: course 198A, Life Sciences 3 and 4, 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
· mixed comma-level AND/OR in "course 198A, Life Sciences 3 and 4, 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 198B

MCD BIO 198AHonors Research in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental 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.

Unlocks

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

MCD BIO 198B

MCD BIO 145Appreciation and Critical Review of Biomedical Research
MCD BIO 193Journal Club Seminars: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
MCD BIO 194AResearch Group Seminars: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
MCD BIO 198CHonors Research in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
- MCD BIO 145Appreciation and Critical Review of Biomedical Researchanother path to it
- MCD BIO 193Journal Club Seminars: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biologyanother path to it
- MCD BIO 194AResearch Group Seminars: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biologyanother path to it

4 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 7 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.

Requisites

Official UCLA wording

Requisites: course 198A, Life Sciences 3 and 4, or 7A, 7B, 7C, 23L, and 107.

BruinTree reads · Prerequisite

needs reviewconfidence 0.45 · from text

one of

all of
all of

· "LIFESCI 3" is not in this catalog version
· "LIFESCI 4" is not in this catalog version
· "LIFESCI 23L" is not in this catalog version
· mixed comma-level AND/OR in "course 198A, Life Sciences 3 and 4, 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 198B

MCD BIO 198AHonors Research in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental 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.

Unlocks

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

MCD BIO 198B

MCD BIO 145Appreciation and Critical Review of Biomedical Research
MCD BIO 193Journal Club Seminars: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
MCD BIO 194AResearch Group Seminars: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
MCD BIO 198CHonors Research in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
- MCD BIO 145Appreciation and Critical Review of Biomedical Researchanother path to it
- MCD BIO 193Journal Club Seminars: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biologyanother path to it
- MCD BIO 194AResearch Group Seminars: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biologyanother path to it

4 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 7 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.