MCD BIO 198DHonors Research in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
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
- Fall 2025
- Winter 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: Life Sciences 3 and 4, or 7A, 7B, 7C, 23L, and 107.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
needs reviewconfidence 0.45 · from text- · "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 "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 198D
- LIFESCI 7ACell and Molecular Biology
- LIFESCI 7BGenetics, Evolution, and Ecology
- LIFESCI 7CPhysiology and Human Biology
- LIFESCI 107Genetics
- CHEM 14AGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists I
- LIFESCI 30AMathematics for Life Scientists
- CHEM 14CStructure of Organic Molecules
- CHEM 20AChemical Structure
- CHEM 30AOrganic Chemistry I: Structure and Reactivity
4 direct requisites. Showing 17 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.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.